Mozilla fixes nine flaws in Thunderbird
Updates e-mail program to 2.0.0.16 to patch bugs handled in Firefox weeks ago Mozilla Messaging patched nine security vulnerabilities in Thunderbird yesterday, the first time it has plugged holes in...
View ArticleGames for Linux Sites
Games for Linux Portal Games for Linux was founded in the year 2001 by Juraj Michálek from Slovakia. There were only small number of games for Linux spreaded over Internet. When someone wants to play...
View ArticleIs OpenSolaris in hot water?
Here’s how it works: Novell owns Unix’s IP (intellectual property). SCO sold Unix’s IP to Sun. Sun then included some Unix IP into Solaris. Finally, Sun open sourced Solaris as OpenSolaris. Sounds...
View ArticleGoogle Gadgets for Linux – almost there
Since version 2 came out in 2005, Google Desktop for Windows has included a sidebar that users can fill with screen gadgets, but the Linux version (version 1, from June 2007) provided only indexing and...
View ArticlePicasa for Linux
Picasa is a free software download from Google. Version 2.7 now available for Linux! Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your computer. Every time you...
View ArticleVeteran developer ditches Microsoft for open source
If you’ve ever used Microsoft Access or Excel, you have likely used a product that Mike Gunderloy had a hand in developing. The irony is that Gunderloy himself doesn’t use those products anymore. He’s...
View ArticleLesson From the DNS Bug: Patching Isn’t Enough
Despite the best efforts of the security community, the details of a critical internet vulnerability discovered by Dan Kaminsky about six months ago have leaked. Hackers are racing to produce exploit...
View ArticleGoogle’s “Cuil” new competitor: not so cool for Google?
Cuil, pronounced “cool”, is a brand new search engine claiming an index of more than 120 billion pages, and founded by former Google employees that were search engine stars to begin with. How cool is...
View ArticleAn Interview with Mozilla CEO
John Lilly - Mozilla CEO When Mozilla released the Firefox browser in 2004, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer dominated the market with a whopping 95 percent share. Now Firefox has 18 percent of the market...
View ArticleSome Open-Source Advocates Find Google’s Android a Sinister Threat
Android, Google’s new mobile software platform based on the Linux kernel, is scheduled to be released in early 2008 under an open-source license. But hope for the new platform is mingled with worries...
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