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 ...
Tags: Bodhi Linux, Linux distribution, new product, company news
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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PC World - It's been a busy few months lately in the world of Linux distributions, and August appears to be no exception. Hard on the heels of the 19 new distros I wrote about the other day resulting from this month's "31 Flavors of Fun" ...
Tags: PCLinuxOS, "31 Flavors of Fun"project, Bodhi Linux, Damn Small Linux
Nvidia may have joined the Linux Foundation earlier this year, but its Optimus switching technology, commonly used as a power-saving mechanism in many laptops, has remained a sticking point for many Linux users. So intense has been the ...
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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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Canonical is adding a new feature to its Ubuntu operating system that will allow desktop users to access popular Internet services without opening a browser window. Instead, a Web page can be accessed as a desktop application. Using this ...
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Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab is developing a secure operating system for industrial control systems, its chairman and CEO Eugene Kaspersky said on Tuesday. "Quite a few rumors about this project have appeared already on the ...
There's no denying 2012 has been a fruitful year for Linux distributions in general, but something about it has also seemed to favor the rebirth of distros we hadn't heard from in years. Two cases in point: Back in August we saw the ...
Tags: Slax Linux, Computer Products, Version 7.0
A suspected fault in how Samsung Electronics has implemented the Android's kernel in several of its devices could allow a malicious application to gain total control over the device. The vulnerability was described on Saturday by the user ...
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Further emphasizing Larry Ellison's fresh enthusiasm for cloud computing, Oracle has updated its Solaris Unix operating system with a number of new capabilities to give it greater cloud capabilities, including a new distributed storage file ...
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A trio known for their prowess in hacking Apple's iPhone software indicated on Thursday they may be edging closer to breaking the improved security measures in iOS 6. The hackers, who spoke at the Hack in the Box security conference in ...
Samsung said Wednesday it is working on an update for a software flaw that could allow attackers to siphon personal data from a phone. The vulnerability affects Samsung's S2 and S3 phones and several models of its Galaxy line, including ...
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Users of Windows Phone 7-based phones will have to wait until the new year for the long-promised version 7.8 updates to the obsolete operating system. The update is intended to improve customisation and mimic the features and functions of ...
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Samsung said Wednesday it is working on an update for a software flaw that could allow attackers to siphon personal data from a phone. The vulnerability affects Samsung’s S2 and S3 phones and several models of its Galaxy line, ...
Researchers from security vendor Damballa have identified malicious Internet traffic that they believe is generated by a new and elusive variant of the sophisticated TDL4 malware. The new threat, which has been assigned the generic name ...
Tags: TDL4 malware, Internet traffic, elusive variant, Fortune 500 Companies