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Meet Google's Tool for Jettisoning Android Malware, Dubbed "Bouncer"

03.02.2012 15:53  If you're an Android user, you've no doubt seen the daunting recent reports about spikes in malware found in applications on Android Market. For example, late last year Juniper Networks reported a 472 percent increase in Android malware samples seen since July 2011.

The First Shots Of "Limare" Running On Linux

03.02.2012 15:52  For open-source fans, here's the first shots of Limare running, in advance of the official announcement this weekend...

Seamonkey Review: Firefox's Lightweight Hyper-Functional Cousin

03.02.2012 15:51  Seamonkey has an interesting history, in that it is both older and younger than Firefox. Older, because originally it was built from Mozilla Suite code (for those of you that don't know, Mozilla Application Suite is the parent of Firefox, and was originally built from the code of Netscape Navigator...

SambaXP 2012 Conference Call for Papers

03.02.2012 15:27  The eleventh international Samba conference, the Samba eXPerience, will take place from 8 to 11 May 2012 in Göttingen, Germany and its organisers are now accepting submissions for papers, presentations and talks...

Distribution Release: Linux Mint 12 "KDE"

03.02.2012 15:06  Clement Lefebvre has announced the release of Linux Mint 12 "KDE" edition: "The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 12 KDE. Linux Mint 12 KDE comes with updated software and brings refinements and new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use.....

Coreboot Is Set To Start Booting Laptops

03.02.2012 14:47  This weekend in Brussels at FOSDEM along with many interesting X.Org discussions and laying out the plans for Wayland 1.0, the Coreboot project has an exciting announcement: showing off the first mainstream laptop with Coreboot support...

Mozilla Developing Web Push Notification System for Firefox

03.02.2012 14:14  Mozilla is developing a push notification system for the Firefox Web browser. It will allow users to receive notifications from websites without having to keep those sites open in their browser. The system will also be able to relay push notifications to mobile devices.

Komodo IDE 7.0 Adds Node.js, LESS and CoffeeScript Support

03.02.2012 12:24  ActiveState's development environment now includes collaboration and synchronisation tools as well as code profiling features, and has been integrated with the company's Stackato Platform-as-a-Service product...

Development Release: Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2

03.02.2012 11:00  Kate Stewart has announced the availability of the second alpha release of Ubuntu 12.04, code name "Precise Pangolin": "Welcome to Precise Pangolin Alpha 2, which will in time become Ubuntu 12.04. Alpha 2 is the second in a series of milestone images that will be released throughout the....

PCLinuxOS 2012.2 Released

03.02.2012 09:00  Today, February 2, is Bill "Texstar" Reynolds' birthday, but it's the community who received the present. PCLinuxOS 2012.2 KDE was released today in a full sized version as well as a mini. This release ships with Kernel 2.6.38 and KDE 4.6.5. It comes packed with lots of your favorite apps like LibreOffice , Firefox, TvTime, VLC, and the GIMP. The appearance hasn't changed since the last release, but some additional goodies have been added.

Weekend project: Zap Your Coworkers' Minds with Multi-Pointer X

03.02.2012 07:41  Care to rethink your desktop user experience? It may be simpler than you think. Chances are you own more than one pointing device, but for years you've never been able to take full advantage of that hardware, because whenever you plugged in a second hardware mouse, it simply shared control of the same cursor. But with X, it doesn't have to: you can have any many distinct, independent cursors on screen as you have devices to control them. So grab a spare from the parts box in the closet, and get ready for the ol' one-two punch.

PHP 5.3.10 Released With Critical Security Fix

03.02.2012 06:00  The PHP 5.3.10 release is out; it contains a fix for a remote code execution bug introduced recently by another security fix. Anybody running 5.3.9 should probably upgrade as soon as possible.

Linux 3.3 Will Let You Boot Into Android: Greg-KH

02.02.2012 19:35  The 3.3 kernel release will let you boot an Android userspace with no modifications, but not very good power management. The 3.4 kernel release will hopefully have the power management hooks that Android needs in it, along with a few other minor missing infrastructure pieces that didn't make it into...

Openmoko Smartphone Reborn as Hackable GTA04

02.02.2012 18:22  German manufacturer Golden Delicious has begun shipping a hackable open source smartphone that runs a variety of Linux software, including a newly optimized Openmoko distro. The Openmoko GTA04 is available as a finished phone or as a board that slips into earlier Openmoko Neo Freerunner GTA01 and GTA02 cases, providing...

Running ownCloud3 On Nginx On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10

02.02.2012 17:25  This tutorial shows how you can install and run ownCloud3 on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache + MySQL + PHP). ownCloud enables universal access...