September 8, 2011
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Recently, some people were shocked-shocked I tell you-to discover that Google had looked at Java to help create Android’s Dalvik and that Google kept its Android source code to itself and its closest partners until the final product was released … Continue reading
September 6, 2011
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Yes, Android has a forking problem. Google forked its mobile, open-source operating system into two versions: Android 2.x for smartphones and Android 3.x for tablets earlier this year. It also doesn’t help Android any that there are so many different … Continue reading
August 31, 2011
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Red Hat, the world’s leading Linux company, is asking its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) users to help set the features for its next release RHEL 7. Of course, Red Hat is based on open-source Linux, and, in particular it’s … Continue reading
August 29, 2011
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I used to love Firefox. For many years, it was the best Web browser around. Then, it got old and cranky. The good news is that Mozilla got serious about improving it. The bad news is that everyone else, even … Continue reading
August 29, 2011
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Let’s play a game. Who do you think Red Hat’s biggest enemy will be in a few years? Will it be Microsoft, Linux’s traditional enemy? Could SUSE, the number two business Linux distributor, make a try for the top? Might … Continue reading
August 28, 2011
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Apache, the open-source Web server, is the most popular Web server on the planet. It’s also as safe as safe can be. Well, usually it is. An old, unfixed security hole has come back to haunt the Apache webmasters in … Continue reading