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Telco, Internet and IT (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Nokia has said it plans to install Linux software on just one new smartphone next year, according to Reuters. Analysts and industry players had expected that the firm would roll out the Maemo operating system to numerous phones next year. Nokia started to sell its first Linux phone, the N900, this month, having previously used the OS on a range of internet tablets. But the phone maker said it believes...
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Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
buchner.johannes writes "I was fed up with the general consensus that Linux is oh-so-secure and has no malware. After a week of work, I finished a package of malware for Unix/Linux. Its whole purpose is to help white-hat hackers point out that a Linux system can be turned into a botnet client, by simply downloading BOINC and attaching it to a user account, to help scientific projects. The malware...
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eWEEKeurope (Free subscription) | yesterday
The US airforce is buying thousands of PS3s as part of a move to expand its supercomputing project, but there has been some speculation that the Cell chip used by the PS3 could be phased…
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TechDigest (Free subscription) | yesterday
The move appears to be part of Nokia's plans to streamline their output to what they refer to as a "focussed portfolio of future products".
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Boycott Novell (Free subscription) | yesterday
Contents GNU/Linux Distributions Devices/Embedded Free Software/Open Source Leftovers Digital Tipping Point: Clip of the Day GNU/Linux Eixil Group partners with Anustubh Labs Eixil Group division Eixil Technosoft Pvt. Ltd. being a Business Development and Online Promotion Company, ventures into high end software development on LINUX Platform by partnering with a new venture Anustubh Labs, launching...
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PhoneArea.net (Free subscription) | yesterday
“ A source with direct knowledge of Nokia’s product roadmap told Reuters ” that there will be only one new smartphone released in 2010 that runs on Maemo. Makes sense. Nokia ( NYSE: NOK )…
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Daily games news (Free subscription) | yesterday
Turborilla’s motorcycle action game brings intense fun and amazing stunts to your desktop. Mad Skills Motocross was released on the Archive Games distribution platform for Windows and Linux. In Mad Skills Motocross, players race through 52 tracks and challenges all while performing impressive tricks. Players will earn reward stars for their cool moves and unlock new [...]
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Efinditnow (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Linux: When you need to drill down deep into your files and folders to find something stored in the depths of your Linux-based operating system, open-source search tool Beagle is your best friend. This free search application is a lot like Mac OS X’s Spotlight or Windows 7’s system search tools. It indexes files, IM transcripts, [...]
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
BROOMFIELD, CO (MARKET WIRE) OpenLogic, Inc., a provider of enterprise open source software solutions encompassing hundreds of open source packages, today announced for the first time it will begin to sell low cost support packages for community distributions of Linux.
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Information Policy (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
A team of researchers has implemented support for ‘trusted computing’ in a commercially available version of the open source operating system Linux, breaking new ground in the global drive toward more secure computing environments. The latest release of openSUSE, a...
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Blog of Leonid Mamchenkov (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
I’ve been using Skype for a few years now, but mainly for chats. Occasionally, I’d do a call, but that never involved video. Until recently. A couple of days ago my dad got online (finally!). And now there is a good reason to use Skype with a web camera for video calls. One of the key [...]
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Code Review - All issues (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
linux: don't try to create plugin container if view_ is NULL This can only happen for extensions with delay-initialized RenderWidgetHost. BUG=28715
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TechConnect Magazine (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
The busy Chrome team is still working on getting Chrome 4.0 to the masses, but until that happens it released a new build of their browser for Linux testers and developers. Chrome 4.0.249.21 includes the following changes: - Disable --enable-user-scripts. - Remove toolstrips API. - Change the default CSS fonts for Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai on Linux to poplular Linux fonts. - Properly...
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JJinuxLand (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
I have a MacBook running Ubuntu 9.04. Every once in a while, the mouse moves by itself. I always assumed it was my palm grazing the trackpad. If you have VertEdgeScroll turned on (which is the default), it's really easy for your right hand to touch the right side of the trackpad and cause your window to scroll. I figured OS X was just better at palm detection. However, I recently bought a really nice...
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kermossa | 01/10/2009
Rootkit scanner is scanning tool to ensure you for about 99.9%* you're clean of nasty tools. This tool scans for rootkits, backdoors and local exploits by running tests like: - MD5 hash compare - Look for default files used by rootkits - Wrong file permissions for binaries