Open Source

Developer Reveals Details Of Ubuntu Torrent Search Tool

The ‘torrent’ scope will be included in Ubuntu by default, currently relies on the Pirate Bay

11 years ago

Microsoft Updates Hyper-V Linux Integration Services

Microsoft is looking to attract more Linux workloads to its virtualisation platform with support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 5.5…

11 years ago

Windows 8 And 8.1 Market Share Passes 10 Percent

Windows 7 continues to lead the way, but Windows XP is still worryingly widespread

11 years ago

Canonical Releases Ubuntu Mobile And Android Dual Boot For Developers

Canonical releases early Christmas gift for Ubuntu Mobile developers - but it isn't for regular users

11 years ago

CyanogenMod Gets Another £14 Million In Funding

Open source Android ROM developers promise “more new things, more often”

11 years ago

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4.0 Hits General Availability

The commercial version of the OpenStack Havana platform has officially arrived from Red Hat

11 years ago

Jolla Puts More Sailfish OS Smartphones On Sale

European customers can get their hands on a Jolla smartphone, while outstanding pre-orders will be fulfilled before Christmas

11 years ago

Google Deepens Open Source Ties With OIN Membership

Google is accepted as a full member of the Open Invention Network, that seeks to protect open source patents

11 years ago

WordPress 3.8 Update Delivers New Look

The new version of the popular content management system WordPress delivers a new look admin panel

11 years ago

Oracle Puts Its Weight Behind OpenStack Project

Almost a dozen Oracle products are due to receive an open source makeover

11 years ago

Red Hat Signals Arrival Of Enterprise Linux 7 Beta

Red Hat delivers the beta of Enterprise Linux 7, which offers improved performance, storage and virtualisation

11 years ago

Researchers Develop Low Cost Open Source 3D Printer For Metal Objects

A low-cost 3D printer has been developed in the US that will allow users to 'print' objects made of steel

11 years ago

Xen Launches The Mirage Cloud OS

Sean Michael Kerner welcomes Mirage, the Xen project's bid to make a specialised cloud operating system

11 years ago

Mozilla Offers Firefox 26 With Secure Plug-Ins

Mozilla releases the new version of its open-source web browser that comes with more secure plug-ins

11 years ago

Valve Joins Linux Foundation Ahead Of SteamOS Launch

Software developer is one of three new organisations to join Linux Foundation

11 years ago

Mozilla Revenues Grow, But So Does Dependency On Google

Mozilla's revenues have come a long way, but most of its income is from one source, says Sean Michael Kerner

11 years ago

Man Accidentally Throws Out Hard Drive Containing £4m Worth Of Bitcoins

A fortune in virtual currency has been lost at a landfill in Newport

11 years ago

Jolla Releases First Sailfish OS Smartphone

Jolla launches the first Sailfish OS-powered smartphone in Finland

11 years ago

Linux Worm Targeting Internet Of Things Discovered

Symantec finds malware that appears to be targeting routers, set-top boxes and security cameras

11 years ago

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Arrives With Precision Timing

Red Hat's new enterprise Linux release launches and offers new security, virtualisation and time-keeping features

11 years ago

Linux Foundation: Open Source Tizen Is Alive And Well

The Linux Foundation's Brian Warner says Tizen 'scratches an itch' unaddressed by smartphone market

11 years ago

Raspberry Pi Sales Hit Two Million

Raspberry Pi Foundation says popularity of the device comes as “a bit of a shock”

11 years ago

First Sailfish OS Jolla Smartphones Go On Sale On 27 November

Sailfish OS-powered Jolla smartphone arrives in Finland later this month

11 years ago

Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Disappears, Along With £3 Million Worth Of BTC

Customers have been unable to contact the administration of Global Bond Limited for over two weeks

11 years ago

CyanogenMod Appears On Google Play, Enables Easy Android Rooting

The new installer can replace stock Android with CyanogenMod in just a couple of clicks

11 years ago

Don’t Expect Major Bugs In Fedora 20 Heisenbug Beta

Heisenbug is just a name: Red Hat's Robyn Bergeron tells Sean Michael Kerner about the new Fedora's SDN and storage…

11 years ago

Hadoop 2 Pushes Big Data Further Into The Mainstream

The new Apache Hadoop promises a world where Big Data players work together, says Doug Cutting

11 years ago

Open Compute Project Tests Three Open Switch Designs

In just six months, Broadcom, Intel and Mellanox have all submitted independent open switch proposals

11 years ago