Open Source

GNOME Open Source Desktop Updated

The open-source GNOME desktop has been updated with an enhanced user interface and other improvements

11 years ago

Nvidia Promises Better Access For Linux Community

Nvidia offers an olive branch to the Linux community following sharp criticism by Linus Torvalds

11 years ago

Oracle Opens Up With Cloud Marketplace And OpenStack Connectivity

Oracle getting a lot more open, even if Larry Ellison is more interested in his sailing team

11 years ago

SUSE Cloud 2.0 Available For Deployment

The OpenStack-based SUSE Cloud 2.0 platform is now available for deployment and download

11 years ago

Infoblox Promises Tapestry, Open Source Network Complexity Tool

How complex is your network? The Tapestry tool can tell you

11 years ago

Valve Announces SteamOS – A Linux-Based System For Gaming

The open source OS will be used to stream PC games and access media services on a living room TV

11 years ago

Mozilla Launches Firefox Preview For Windows 8 Tablets

The company wants user feedback ahead of the official release in December

11 years ago

Spotify Shifts To HortonWorks’ Hadoop Platform

Music provider Spotify moves its burgeoning Big Data repository of music preferences from one Hadoop player to another

11 years ago

Ubuntu Touch Mobile OS Set For 17 October Launch

Ubuntu Mobile plans to press ahead despite crowdfunding failure of Ubuntu Edge

11 years ago

Tech City Is Not Enough: UK Firms Need Government Help to IPO

John Newton of Alfresco asks why are there so few British tech IPOs?

11 years ago

Intel Explains Open Source, OpenStack Commitments

Intel’s open source executive explains the chipmaker’s commitment to open source and the OpenStack cloud

11 years ago

Coverity Tackles Open-Source Defects

Coverity's testing solution is now used by the ANTLR open-source project to find and fix critical software defects

11 years ago

CERN Preparing Clouds For Big 2015 LHC Switch-On

As CERN prepares to restart the Collider, the IT guys are turning to OpenStack and a European Science Cloud for…

11 years ago

Linus Torvalds Jokes The NSA Wanted A Backdoor In Linux

Torvalds' LinuxCon keynote covered a lot more than the NSA backdoor joke, says Sean Michael Kerner

11 years ago

Linux Is the Future… For Learning And Gaming?

Thanks to the Raspberry Pi and gamers, Linux is all set to come out on top, says Sean Michael Kerner

11 years ago

FutureLearn Launches Free Online University Courses

UK’s biggest provider of online education announces open beta stage

11 years ago

Mozilla Releases Firefox 24 And Fixes Security Issues

Mozilla has patched a number of security issues with the release of its Firefox 24 web browser

11 years ago

IBM Throwing $1bn Into Linux And Open Source

IBM is throwing a load of its money into open source stuff

11 years ago

Sailfish OS Is Now Fully Compatible With Android

The successor to MeeGo works on Android hardware, runs apps from Google Play

11 years ago

OpenDaylight Prepares ‘Hydrogen’ SDN Platform

The first release of OpenDaylight's SDN architecture comes five months after founding members including IBM, Cisco and the Linux Foundation…

11 years ago

Google Releases Tool To Teach Code On Raspberry Pi

Creators say open source “Coder” software is an easy way to learn HTML, CSS and JavaScript

11 years ago

WordPress Update Fixes Three Security Vulnerabilities

A new update of the popular WordPress blogging platform tackles a number of security issues

11 years ago

Canonical Landscape Updated For ARM Server Support

Canonical’s systems management solution Landscape can now manage x86- and ARM-based server environments

11 years ago

Torvalds’ Dead SSD Delays 3.12 Linux Kernel

Even the father of Linux is not immune to hardware failure

11 years ago

Google Patchfield Boosts Audio Application Development

Patchfield is aimed at Android developers who want to create focused audio applications that can be connected together

11 years ago

Open Cloud Is Good. Interoperable Cloud Is Better

Open source cloud is not enough. Sean Michael Kerner says solutions have to interoperate as well

11 years ago

Apache Ships Cassandra 2.0 Open-Source Database

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) launches version 2.0 of the Cassandra NoSQL database

11 years ago

Linux 3.11 For Workgroups Arrives With Added Lustre

The final release of Linux version 3.11 - codenamed Linux for Workgroups - is now out

11 years ago

LibreOffice Gains Collabora Commercial Support

The open-source LibreOffice office productivity suite is to gain commercial support from Collabora Productivity

11 years ago

Kickstarter Project Flutter Proposes M2M Net With Half A Mile Range

Flutter is building a cheap Arduino-based tool for the Internet of Things

11 years ago