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Najnowsze wiadomości oraz artykuły o sieciach i technologiach komunikacyjnychYaST++, written in Ruby, is set to replace the base layer used by current YaST variants based on Qt, GTK+ and ncurses
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After incubating since 2010, Deltacloud becomes the second cloud management platform to ascend to the status of Apache Top Level Project
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Ubuntu 10.04.4 refreshes the installation media of the long-term support edition of the Linux distribution for the last time. Changes include a recent edition of Firefox and other updated packages and bug fixes on an up-to-date CD and DVD images
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The Qt Build Suite is intended to one day replace the unfavoured qmake Makefile generator and offer even more features. An experimental version has now been introduced in Qt Labs
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Dartium allows developers interested in Google's JavaScript alternative to use the language within a browser without a separate compilation step
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Version 2.6.2 of the open source 3D content creation suite includes new UV Tools, support for layers and passes in the Cycles render engine, and a new Remesh modifier tool
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CUPS 1.6, which is currently in development, will no longer include some features used in many Linux distributions. An Intel developer has presented patches that may allow the kernel to use an efficient power management feature by default
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Yahoo has released its YSlow performance analysis tool under a BSD licence and made the source code available on Github as a means of opening up development
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The first milestone of version 12.2 of openSUSE includes version 4.8 of the KDE desktop environment, an upgraded Firefox web browser and updated artwork
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Fedora 17 will not, as planned, use Btrfs as its default filesystem, but will stick with ext4
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Unknown perpetrators infiltrated a backdoor into several installation packages during a hack of the groupware provider's FTP server. The attack went undetected for a period of four months
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The first stable 3.1.x release of the help desk solution includes a framework for connecting OTRS to third-party applications, and improvements to process automation, task management and database support
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The Password Reuse Visualizer is Mozilla's way of drawing attention to a security problem which is as familiar as it is widespread
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The new version is ready for all users and includes a new built-in grammar checker, interactive word count, support for 10,000 sheet spreadsheets and Visio importing. It also sees update checking turned on for the first time.
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In a post on its blog, Twitter confirmed that it has now enabled HTTPS by default for all logged-in users; previously the option was only on by default for "some" users, requiring others to manually enable it
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In its 2011 annual security report, security services provider Secunia claims that the absolute number of vulnerabilities being discovered is falling. A closer look at the figures, however, shows that there is no room for complacency
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The cryptome.org team has issued a warning that the whistleblowing web site has been used to spread malicious code through the use of an aggressive exploit toolkit
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Now available to download as in-development snapshots or source, JetBrains' Kotlin language aims to address the same issues as Scala, but be easier to use
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Nine critical vulnerabilities in Adobe's Shockwave Player are addressed in the release of an updated and fixed version
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With Readium, the International Digital Publishing Forum is working on an open source reference implementation of its HTML5-based EPUB 3 e-book standard
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A partnership between Sourcefabric and FLOSS Manuals has resulted in the release of the Booktype book creation, collaboration and publishing platform
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According to an analysis by James Bromberger it would cost £12.1 billion to develop the software that is included in Debian from scratch
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Google has announced the grand prize winners for its 2011 Google Code-in contest, in which pre-university students were introduced to open source software development. Winners will be flown to Google's campus later this year
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As part of its recent platform revamp, Vimeo has added support for browsing and searching for videos made available under a Creative Commons licence, along with a new CC Vimeo portal for signed-in users
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As Google restores Google Wallet prepaid cards services, security researchers show that an earlier PIN brute force attack doesn't actually need a rooted phone and could be executed remotely
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