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By Adam Pash Windows/Mac/Linux: The folks at Mozilla continue their steady march towards the release of Firefox 3.6, today releasing an update to Firefox 3.6 Beta 3. The update addresses 90+ bugs from the beta 2 release. Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 [via Mozilla Links]

By Adam Pash Windows/Mac/Linux: Less than two weeks after they released the first beta, Mozilla is back with Firefox 3.6 beta 2. This release includes over 190 bug fixes from beta 1, in addition to the already existing performance boosts and support for one-click themes. Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 [Mozilla]

By Kevin Purdy Like Firefox, Opera has already released a beta of Opera 10.1, with the Unite media server installed, but 10.01 is a fixed release for the main, stable branch of Opera. You can see what's changed in the changelog, and grab a copy at the link below.

By Adam Pash Windows/Mac/Linux: VLC—the most popular video player among Lifehacker readers—just released an update to version 1.0.2. The update addresses a serious security issue, adds 64-bit support for OS X, and fixes several bugs. The full changelog mentions a completely reworked interface for...

By Adam Pash Windows/Mac/Linux: Firefox 3.5.1 is available for download, addressing the security issue and startup bugs (as well as some stability fixes) we mentioned yesterday. (If you want to know more, you can see the full changelog here.) If you haven't been prompted already, click on Help > Che...

The version 6.0 zip archive also contains the download scripts in for a Linux version contributed by the developer Stefan Jöhnke. Under Linux there's less risk of a bug causing trouble with freshly downloaded updates. If you run a Linux file server, ...

 UK The version 6.0 zip archive also contains the download scripts in for a Linux version contributed by the developer Stefan Jöhnke. Under Linux there's less risk of a bug causing trouble with freshly downloaded updates. If you run a Linux file server, ...

By Adam Pash PPC (PowerPC) support for Mac OS X, VDPAU (NVIDIA GPU Hardware Accelerated Video Decoding for Linux), updated Codecs, new Karaoke features, more Media Info Scrapers, improved FanArt support, and of course enhancements to the XBMC Skinning Framework making it even more flexible and p...

 TN ITS is pleased to offer a Red Hat Enterprise Linux download and patch management service to the Vanderbilt community. The offer provides employees and students with free access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.3 Desktop for use on personally owned ...

Tiny Core Linux 1.4 & 2.0 RC1 released  UK The Tiny Core developers have announced the release of version 1.4 of their minimal Linux distribution. Tiny Core is only about 10 MB in size and is based on the 2.6 Linux kernel. Version 1.4 now includes Tiny Core Virtual Disk (TCVD) support and an ...

By Adam Pash New-to-this-release features include support for more filetypes, some crazy Karaoke features, improvements to the skinning framework, better music and movie scraping tools for artwork, and support for PowerPC Macs. The release is available on Windows, Mac, Linux (shortly), Apple...

Linux will release a new version of its Ubuntu Server software April 30. The new software will include a clustering program that will enable Ubuntu servers to function like an Amazon-compatible cloud, automatically migrating kernel-based virtual ...

 TN The new version adds support for 64-bit Linux, expanding the compatibility that already includes 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, and 32-bit Linux. Yazsoft has updated ShareTool, which lets you access all of your Bonjour services from anywhere in the world, ...

The Zenwalk developers have released a version of their "Zen computing" Linux distribution featuring the GNOME desktop and applications. Zenwalk GNOME 6.0 includes the 2.6.28.7 Linux Kernel and the new 2.26.0 release of the GNOME desktop environment. ...

The GNOME Project today achieved a new release of its popular desktop computing environment for Linux. Highlighting the GNOME 2.26 release is a version of the Evolution mail client that could finally open the door to Linux replacing Windows in the ... GNOME 2.26.0 released Heise Online

By Adam Pash Windows/Mac/Linux: Love yourself a little Thunderbird? Mozilla's desktop email client has released an update for early adopters in the form of Thunderbird 3 Beta 2. The majority of changes in this release come in the form of massive bug fixes, but you'll also see cool new features like ar...

The Update Service is part of Timesys's new LinuxLink 3.0 embedded Linux development subscription service. Version 3.0 is far more automated than before, TimeSys claims, citing a new build engine and web-services-based automation, plus a new interface ...

The open source desktop environment for Unix and Linux platforms aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and adhering to standards. The new Xfce release includes several improvements over version 4.4. ... Xfce 4.6.0 Impresses with Slew of New Features OS News

Portal IT  Australia - Feb 5, 2009 The Arkeia Network Backup for MS SQL requires a Linux server running a full version of Arkeia's Network Backup product, for backing up multiple servers. ... Microsoft Announces Four Security Updates On Patch Tuesday EfluxMedia News all 74 news articles

 Romania - Feb 2, 2009 Ubuntu 8.10 users need to update their machines to the new version of the Linux kernel released by Canonical at the end of the week, which fixes six ...

 Germany - The Ubuntu team has released Ubuntu 8.04.2, the second maintenance update to the "long term support" (LTS) version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, ... Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS Released Softpedia all 6 news articles

IT Examiner  Germany - Red Hat has released version 5.3, the third update of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 operating system, first introduced in March 2007. ... Red Hat revs Enterprise Linux distro Register TITLE: Red Hat update for kernel SecuObs

By Kevin Purdy Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): Amarok 2, the open source media center we'd previously toured while it was in beta, is now available in a release version for Linux systems, and in beta for Windows and OS X. There aren't a ton of new features between the later beta release and this "final...

By Brad Linder A tabbed interface for mailIntegration with Windows Vista SearchIntegration with the Mac OS X Address BookIMAP improvements for faster message viewing You can also use the Add-ons Manager to search for, download, and install plugins and themes much the same way you can with the Firefo...

By Aleksandar Stojadinovic Ten months after releasing its sixth version of Yellow Dog Linux (abbreviated as YDL), Fixstars has released the new, 6.1 edition. This is also the first version released after the company was acquired by Terra Soft. For those who are unfamiliar with YDL, it is a Linux distribution programm...

By Gina Trapani Windows and Linux only: A new release of the open-source, all-in-one email, calendar, and task manager Spicebird is now available for download. Kevin took you on a tour of Spicebird 0.4 back in January, but the new version 0.7 adds features and fixes. Notably, 0.7 got support for Google gadget...

By prathapml The developers behind the Ubuntu Linux Distribution have now made available the first alpha release of their next update Jaunty Jackalope. This is the first test...

By Jason Meserve Most of the major Linux vendors have released patches for a pair of bugs in libxml2, an XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project. Both bugs could be exploited in a denial of service attack against systems that rely on the libxml2 module. Ubuntu, Mandriva, rPath and Debian are a...

By Justin Mann The world's current most popular Linux desktop flavor, Ubuntu, is busy at work on the successor to their existing version, which was released only a month ago. The next update, Ubuntu 9.04, is currently under development and should have an alpha version available for perusal this week, pe...

By Will Park Following on news that Google is rolling out a new Android RC30 build to patch up the T-Mobile G1’s Android jailbreak exploit, we’re now hearing that the geek-tastic Linux OS Debian has been ported to the T-Mobile G1 and the Android ...

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By kdawson Linux blog writes "The new version of OpenBSD is available for download. There are lots of nifty new features to try out including OpenSSH 5.1 with chroot(2) support, Xenocara, Gnome 2.20.3, KDE 3.5.8, etc. Machines using the UltraSPARC IV/T1/T2 and Fujitsu SPARC64-V/VI/VII are now supporte...

By Soulskill ruphus13 writes "As mentioned earlier, there was a kernel bug in the alpha/beta version of the Linux kernel (up to 2.6.27 rc7), which was corrupting (and rendering useless) the EEPROM/NVM of adapters. Thankfully, a patch is now out that prevents writing to the EEPROM once the driver is load...

The KDE community has released KDE 4.1.2, which is code-named Codename. KDE 4.1.2 is a monthly update to the KDE 4.1 series of the popular free Linux desktop environment. The community will continue with monthly updates, ultimately reaching the next major release, KDE 4.2, in January 2009.

By Kevin Purdy The latest release of the popular Linux Distribution Ubuntu, numbered 8.04 and code-named "Hardy Heron," is available for download and upgrading. We pointed out most of the new features and improvements in our screenshot tour of Hardy, including a nifty Windows-based installer, file-...

By Gina Trapani The beta version of the next release of Ubuntu Linux—dubbed "Hardy Heron" just as founder Mark Shuttleworth promised us—is now available for download by intrepid testers. Beyond just being hardy, the heron looks packed with goodies, like GNOME 2.22, the Linux Kernel 2.6.24 as well as the Fi...

Version 3.0 of the Debian-based schools Linux distribution Skolelinux has been released. The latest release features support for more than 50 languages and includes a range of educational software.

By donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru) Version 5.0.2 of Yellow Dog Linux was recently released. It includes kernel 2.6.22rc4, SDK v2.0 for Cell BE, more than 70 bug fixes and updates, continued support for both 32- and 64-bit systems and has beta IBM 'System p' support.

By Somanshu They would be able to download this patch and update the device by connecting it to the computer. Nokia updates its Nokia N800 Internet Tablet with new features World’s largest mobile phone maker Nokia has now upgraded the Linux-based operating system on its Nokia N800 Internet Tablet de...

By webmaster@datamonitor.com (Datamonitor) Novell has announced that it will release an update to its SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time, SLERT, extensions in July, based on the recently launched SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 1.

By David Marshall Novell announced the first service pack (SP1) for SUSE Linux Enterprise 10. It featured significant enhancements in virtualization, high-performance computing, security, interoperability and system management. Service Pack 1 enhancements include: Enhanced virtualization sup...

By edit@zdnet.com.au (Matt Broersma) Novell has released the first service pack (SP1) for its Suse Linux Enterprise 10 server software, which promises better virtualisation and high performance support along with improved security.

Novell's first service patch to its SUSE Linux desktop and server 10 lines brings better virtualization, security and application improvements.

Ab sofort steht Service Pack 1 für SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Server und Desktop bereit.

By donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Novell has shipped the first service pack for SUSE Linux Enterprise 10. "Novell today announced that the first service pack for SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 is now available to customers worldwide. Featuring significant enhancements in virtualization, high-performance computing, secu...

The hacker who created a widely reported cross-platform virus that could affect both Windows and Linux PCs may have inadvertently done some free bug testing for the Linux operating system. On Wednesday, Linux creator Linus Torvalds said he had patched his operating system kernel to fix...

By donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 4.0, codenamed etch, after 21 months of constant development. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which supports a total of eleven processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME and...

By Hemos AdamWill writes "Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring RC3 "Beijing" is now available. Featuring the most comprehensive support for 3D desktop technologies, the latest versions of KDE, GNOME, Mozilla Firefox and others, a beautiful new theme and enhancements and refinements to the comprehens...

More than just a gathering of bug fixes, Novell's SUSE Enterprise Linux patch will significantly improve the functionality of both its Linux server and desktop. (Linux-Watch)