Open Source

Oracle Adds OpenStack In Solaris 11.2

The new Solaris continues Oracle's push for its own "engineered systems", but opens up to OpenStack

11 years ago

Mozilla Offers $10,000 Bounty For Bugs In New SSL Certificate Library

In the wake of the discovery of Heartbleed bug, Mozilla is stepping up its certificate validation efforts

11 years ago

Software Engineer Creates Smartphone Based On Raspberry Pi

David Hunt shows how to build a smartphone out of electrical components worth £94, without any soldering

11 years ago

Mozilla Appoints Andreas Gal As New CTO

The current vice president of Mobile Engineering replaces Brendan Eich, who was first promoted to the CEO position, then resigned

11 years ago

Android Users Downloaded 220m Apps Containing Heartbleed Bug

Updates have reduced the number of vulnerable apps, but millions still running flawed software on Android

11 years ago

GitHub President Resigns After Allegations Of Harassment

Tom Preston-Werner quits GitHub, even though an independent investigation clears his name

11 years ago

Ubuntu 14.04 ‘Trusty Tahr’ Arrives To Fill Windows XP Void

Canonical touts the new release of Ubuntu Linux as a great alternative to replace Windows XP

11 years ago

AMD Shows Off x86 APU Server Running Fedora Linux

AMD demonstrates its upcoming next-generation Opteron X APU server running Fedora Linux

11 years ago

Mt Gox Abandons Hope, Prepares For Liquidation

CEO of the bitcoin exchange Mark Karpeles has been replaced by court-appointed provisional administrator

11 years ago

How To Use Money To Prevent The Next Heartbleed

Support open source with time and money, stop a repeat of the Heartbleed OpenSSL flaw, says Seean Michael Kerner

11 years ago

Samsung Plans Two Tizen Smartphones And Android-Powered Smartwatch

Samsung executive reveals more on Tizen plans and how a twin-operating system strategy will work

11 years ago

Open Source Code Has Fewer Defects Than Proprietary Software

The latest Coverity Scan Open Source Report suggests that the quality of programming in free C and C++ projects is…

11 years ago

Chris Beard Takes Over As Mozilla Interim CEO

Beard, Mozilla's former CMO and most recently an executive at venture capital firm Greylock Partners, has stepped in following the…

11 years ago

Geeksphone Revolution Lets Users Dual-Boot Android And Firefox OS

Geeksphone Revolution arrives in the UK, allowing users to choose between Android and any other open source OS without voiding…

11 years ago

The Heartbleed Lesson: Open Source Needs Attention

Heartbleed happened because web giants thought that open source provided them with a free ride, says Wayne Rash

11 years ago

ElasticHosts To Charge Linux Cloud Customers By Consumption, Not Capacity

ElasticHosts' container service promises to make it cheaper and easier for businesses to move to the cloud

11 years ago

Windows XP Is Dead – Long Live Linux!

Windows XP machines could have a new lease of life running Linux, says Sean Michael Kerner - but only if…

11 years ago

Even Smaller Raspberry Pi Compute Module Targets Businesses And Industry

Raspberry Pi Foundation makes a unit with fewer connectors in a dinky DIMM package, for commercial users to build into…

11 years ago

Canonical Shuts Down Ubuntu One Cloud Storage Service

Ubuntu One will close on 31 July as Canonical pulls out of free cloud storage wars

11 years ago

Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich Steps Down After Backlash

Brendan Eich resigns as Mozilla CEO because of the furious backlash to his stance on gay-marriage

11 years ago

Open Source Collaboration Is A Top-Down Decision

Collaboration might seem to come naturally to open source developers, but the Linux Foundation tell Sean Michael Kerner that it's…

11 years ago

Open Xchange Launches Cloud-Based Spreadsheet Editor

OX Spreadsheet is a cloud-based application available on any device and fully compatible with Microsoft Excel files

11 years ago

Linux 3.14 Upgrades ZRAM, Buffer Features

The latest Linux kernel adds enhanced memory compression, scheduling and networking features

11 years ago

MariaDB Enterprise 2 Bridges The Gap Between SQL And NoSQL

The latest release of MariaDB Enterprise removes the need to choose between different database technologies, says SkySQL

11 years ago

Mozilla Denies Board Member Mutiny Over Its CEO Choice

The organisation says departure of three board members is a coincidence not related to the appointment of Brendan Eich

11 years ago

SugarCRM: Combining Open Source Sensibilities With Commercial Interest

Henning Ogberg and Jennifer Stagnaro from SugarCRM explains how open source platforms can be a good source of revenue

11 years ago

Brendan Eich Is The Right Person To Lead Mozilla

Brendan Eich has guided Mozilla's technical strategy from the start. Sean Michael Kerner says perfect to lead the maker of…

11 years ago

Microsoft Donates Historic Operating System Source Code

Microsoft donates the source code for two iconic products, namely early versions of MS-DOS and Word for Windows

11 years ago

CloudStack 4.3 Released With Support For Hyper-V

Apache releases CloudStack 4.3, which now supports Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualisation hypervisor

11 years ago

Mozilla Promotes Brendan Eich To CEO Position

The man who co-founded Mozilla Foundation over a decade ago finally gets into the driving seat

11 years ago