IDG News Service - Attackers are exploiting a new and unpatched vulnerability that affects the latest version of Java -- Java 7 Update 6 -- in order to infect computers with malware, according to researchers from security vendor FireEye. ...
PC World - This year has already been a notable one on many technological fronts, but certainly one of the more exciting ones among them is the Linux-powered revolution that's taking place in personal computing. Delivering significant ...
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PC World - It's been less than a year since I first wrote about Bodhi Linux 1.2.0, but already the popular, Ubuntu-based Linux distribution has reached its second major milestone. During the intervening time Bodhi has crept upward from ...
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PC World - There's been a marked jump in recent months in the number of options facing Linux fans interested in buying hardware with their favorite operating system preinstalled, but just recently one came out that seems particularly ...
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Windows 8's Secure Boot technology has been a hot topic this summer, causing no end of discussion and debate among the various Linux distributions, which are struggling to figure out the best approach for getting around it. Not long ago ...
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Ubuntu Linux may be all over the news recently, but anyone who's ever perused DistroWatch has a pretty good sense of just how many other Linux distributions are out there as well, ready to be tried at will. Next month, however, that list ...
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The next version of Ubuntu Linux will include a new feature that can incorporate commonly used Web apps directly into the user's desktop, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced at OSCON on Thursday. The new feature, called Ubuntu ...
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PC World - Linux fans in general and Ubuntu users in particular are already well acquainted with the many desktop environments that are available for distributions of the free and open-source operating system. While Ubuntu Linux has ...
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Infoworld - Hewlett-Packard may be best known for its ubiquitous printers and laptops, but in the enterprise world, it is just as recognized for its servers. Now that the idea of the cloud is taking over, HP is joining the marketplace and ...
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There are all kinds of Linux servers. The most complicated of these require you to be a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE). Many of them require you to do more than download a distro, burn a CD, and install and boot up your new bare-bones ...
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PC World - There's been plenty of excitement surrounding Firefox OS ever since Mozilla announced its first hardware partners earlier this year, but now it looks like there's yet another open-source operating system entering the scene. Now ...
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IDG News Service - Well, the Secure Boot saga keeps going on and on as Linux distributions far and wide decide how they're going to work around Windows 8's planned restrictions, and this week we heard from yet another project. It was SUSE ...
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Earlier this month fans of the good old GNOME 2 desktop environment got some exciting news when it became clear that a version of Ubuntu Linux featuring the classic desktop was in the works. Now, plans for that new Ubuntu flavor are ...
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Earlier this month fans of the good old GNOME 2 desktop environment got some exciting news when it became clear that a version of Ubuntu Linux featuring the classic desktop was in the works. Now, plans for that new Ubuntu flavor are ...
Tags: GNOME 2, desktop environment, Ubuntu Linux, classic desktop
Expanding its portfolio of cloud computing services, Google is launching an IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) package, called Google Compute Engine (GCE). "We've heard from many of our customers that not having an IaaS was a barrier to ...
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