The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has announced the availability of FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. The 6.2 release continues the development of the 6-STABLE branch providing performance and stability improvements, many bug fixes and new features.
Some of the highlights:
freebsd-update(8) provides officially supported binary updates for security fixes and errata patches
Experimental support for CAPP security event auditing
OpenBSM audit command line [...]
Dell has decided to tap the open source market with the Dimension N series which are powered by 64-bit Pentium D or AMD Athlon X2 processors and come with an unformatted hard drive so you can load the OS of your choice Linux, Free BSD, etc. and even Windows.
With the launch of the [...]
Red Hat will soon release Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), its enterprise Linux product on February 28, with major virtualization technology as one of the operating system’s highlights. Originally slated to be released by the end of 2006, Red Hat began giving itself some room to work with when the first RHEL 5 beta [...]
Miscrosft’s Windows Vista has constantly been in the lime light ever since its November release to corporates. Hackers have been constantly having a go at the security lapses in Vista, and now have finally come down to a way to skip the activation altogether !
The Permanent Activation is achieved by skipping the activation process altogether [...]
An evaluation of the latest Mac OS X 10.5 build provided to developers reveals steady progress has been made with the operating system in the past number of months, but significant stability issues persist, all but arresting any hopes for an early release at or around Macworld Expo San Francisco next month.
The new build, 9A321, [...]
The new ATI 8.32.5 fglrx Linux Driver has been released.
Fixes in version 8.32.5 include a fix for Viewperf 7.1.1 to prevent crashing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 version 2, 64-bit systems with 4GB or more of system memory no longer faces issues
The download link can be found in the Linux Downloads Section.
Continuing Microsoft’s investment in market leading development tools, Service Pack 1 addresses issues that were found through a combination of customers and partner feedback, as well as internal testing.
The issues addressed range in severity from places where the syntax coloring was incorrect to customer reported crashes in various scenarios. Through further advancement and feedback, Service [...]
What is Ubuntu Satanic Edition ?
Ubuntu SE is not currently a distro, rather its a collection of themes meant for Ubuntu fans which will transform the look of Ubuntu.
You must first download and install one of the standard Ubuntu variants and then upgrade to Ubuntu SE.You can however, easily change your system back if you intend to recant.
However, [...]