OpenBSD 3.7 Released
The OpenBSD project has released version 3.7 of OpenBSD, a free and highly secure open source operating system. New features in this release include support for Zaurus and SGI platforms, enhanced...
View ArticleReview of FreeBSD 5.4
NewsForge has published a review of FreeBSD 5.4, the latest release of the open source multi-platform Unix operating system. Among the new features and changes are fixes to numerous security flaws, a...
View ArticleThunderbird 1.1 Will Have Podcasting Support
According to the Mozilla Foundation, version 1.1 of the Thunderbird open source e-mail client will support podcasts. Using existing RSS functionality, the client adds additional support for...
View ArticleCoverage of the Red Hat Summit
NewsForge has published coverage from the Red Hat Summit in New Orleans. Topics covered include the Red Hat Directory Server, the freeing of the Fedora Project, the global impact of open source, and...
View ArticleUsing OpenVPN to Secure Your Wireless Network
Informit.com has published a very interesting article explaining how to use the free open source OpenVPN package to help secure your wireless network. This is done by implementing a VPN connection...
View ArticleThunderbird Extensions
NewsForge has published an article that takes a look at the most powerful extensions to Mozilla's Thunderbird open source e-mail software. Among these are: Quicktext, for grouping text elements and...
View ArticleFedora Core 4 Linux Released
Red Hat today released Fedora Core 4, the latest version of their free Linux distribution. Among the major improvements in Fedora Core 4 are GNOME 2.10 and KDE 3.4, the Evince multi-format document...
View ArticleSun Releases OpenSolaris
Sun Microsystems today released the Solaris operating system as open-source software. The company has published source code to the kernel on the OpenSolaris web site, and will be publishing other code...
View ArticleLAMP Development Threatening Dominance of .NET and Java
The LAMP open source development stack is steadily winning marketshare against Microsoft's .NET and Sun's Java programming suites. LAMP includes the Linux operating system, the Apache web server, the...
View ArticleCoverage of OSCON 2005
Several news sites have published coverage of the OSCON 2005 conference. The O'Reilly Open Source Convention featured talks and presentations by many of the most important people in the Open Source...
View ArticleObject Oriented Programming in PHP
ONLamp.com has published an article about object oriented programming in PHP, and talks about the advantages, disadvantages, and pitfalls of using classes in PHP. For those building ever larger PHP...
View ArticleThunderbird 1.0.7 Released
The Mozilla Foundation has released version 1.0.7 of the Mozilla Thunderbird mail client software. The new version includes a number of security fixes and is a recommended update for all users of...
View ArticleOpenBSD 3.8 Released
Open source operating system OpenBSD 3.8 was released today. New features include improved hardware support, new tools for RAID and IPSec management, enhanced wireless capabilities, support for the UDF...
View ArticleBuilding High Performance Linux Clusters
IBM DeveloperWorks has published a two-part article explaining how to build high performance Linux clusters. The discussion includes information about fail-over clusters, load-balancing clusters, and...
View ArticleCreating Podcasts Using Open Source Software
An article over at Linux Dev Center explains how to create podcasts with nothing but open source tools like Audacity and Ardour. You can then use sites like ourmedia.org to distribute your podcasts...
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