Archive for the ‘IT News’ Category

WeTab is based on MeeGo

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Intel and the 4tiitoo developers have confirmed that their upcoming WeTab tablet will run the Linux-based MeeGo mobile operating system
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Canonical releases Ubuntu 10.10 Beta

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Canonical has released a beta for version 10.10 of Ubuntu, code-named "Maverick Meerkat". The development milestone is the first and only planned beta and will be followed by a release candidate at the end of the month
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openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 1 arrives

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

The openSUSE project has released the first milestone release for version 11.4 of the openSUSE operating system. The development preview features a updated, faster package management system
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iTunes 10 addresses 13 security vulnerabilities

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

All of the holes are contained in WebKit and can be exploited to compromise systems
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Language agnostic web server Mongrel2 1.0 released

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Mongrel2 is a language agnostic web server capable of routing web requests to applications written in any one of ten languages
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Wireshark 1.4.0 drops Windows 2000 support

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

The Wireshark project has released version 1.4.0 of its open source, cross-platform network protocol analyser, adding and updating a number of new features and dropping support for Windows 2000 systems
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GitHub launches "Pull Requests 2.0"

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

New features enhance collaboration of the distributed version control system with GitHub’s hosted service
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PostgreSQL 9.0’s first release candidate arrives

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

The PostgreSQL developers have issued a first release candidate for version 9.0 of their open source database, integrating replication using "Hot Standby" and "Streaming Replication"
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KDE SC 4.5.1 released with various bug fixes

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

The KDE Project has released version 4.5.1 of the KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC), the first point update to the latest major release of the popular Linux and Unix desktop
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CyanogenMod 6.0 brings Android 2.2 to older devices

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

The CyanogenMod project has published version 6.0 of its modified Android 2.2 based firmware, a free, community-built custom ROM that supports a number of older Android phones – many of which only officially support version 1.6 of Google’s mobile operating system
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