The Windows SSH client PuTTY is incredibly useful; even more useful is setting it up with a private/public keypair.
Read more »Open Source Windows SSH Client Delivers Security Boost
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Install Nginx On CentOS 5.5 With SSL, PCRE, GeoIP, Zlib, Gzip And DAV Support
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Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can compile and install Nginx on a CentOS 5.5 server with SSL, PCRE, GeoIP, Zlib, Gzip and DAV support.
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Announcing Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.8.0
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The Tahoe-LAFS team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 1.8.0 of Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely reliable distributed storage system. Tahoe-LAFS is the first distributed storage system to offer "provider-independent security" -- meaning that not even the operators of your storage servers can read or alter your data without your consent.
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Microsoft HPC claim: Windows is cheaper than Linux
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Microsoft has made some pretty bold claims about Linux throughout its longstanding love/hate (mostly hate) relationship with the open source operating system.
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Oracle updates Linux with Unbreakable Enterprise kernel launch
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Ever since Oracle introduced its Unbreakable Linux support program in late 2006 there have been doubts about whether the company could continue to maintain compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Read more »WebKit’s new attributes
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In the latest nightly builds, the WebKit engine can handle HTML5 attributes for non-blocking JavaScript loading
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Direct3D 10/11 Is Now Natively Implemented On Linux
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It's a pity Luca Barbieri or any Mesa / Gallium3D developers are not at Oktoberfest as they are deserving of more than a few Maß of Augustiner. In fact, today a new Gallium3D state tracker was pushed into Mesa and it's perhaps the most interesting state tracker for this open-source graphics driver architecture yet.
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Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.36 (Part 2) - File systems, networking and storage
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2.6.36 offers VFS optimisations, has returned to integrating Ext3 file systems with "data=ordered" by default and can store data from shared Windows or Samba disks in local cache to improve performance. Numerous new and improved drivers enhance the kernel's storage and network hardware support
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BackTrack 4 Development Roadmap
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At its new home at backtrack-linux, Backtrack 5 is on course for a release date due in early 2011.
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Oracle announces MySQL 5.5 release candidate
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The ongoing release of MySQL 5.5 (free software relational database management system) includes many enhancements in performance, availability and usability.
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Firebird 2.5 released
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The primary goal for Firebird 2.5 free software database engine was to establish the basics for a new threading architecture that is almost entirely common to the Superserver, Classic and Embedded models, taking in lower level synchronization and thread safety generally.
Read more »LLVM's DragonEgg 2.8 released for GCC
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Only one week has passed since the release of LLVM 2.8, but out today is version 2.8 of DragonEgg. For those out of the loop, DragonEgg is a GCC plug-in for GCC 4.5 and later that replaces the optimizers and code generations from GCC with that of those from the Low-Level Virtual Machine.
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Firefox Input 1.9
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Hieraŭ ekfunkciis nova versio de la prifajrovulpa opiniesprimejo "Firefox Input". Tio ĉi povas esti la lasta versio antaŭ 2.0.
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GnuPG 1.4.11 released
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The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It is a complete and free replacement of PGP and can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility, samrtcard support and is compliant with the OpenPGP Internet standard as described by RFC-4880.
Read more »Ingres database 10 release announcement
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Ingres Corporation, the leading open source database management company and pioneer of the New Economics of IT, announced today the availability of Ingres Database 10, the latest version of the company's flagship open source database product.
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