Ten Million Mozilla Users Just Got More Secure
internetnews.com — From the 'Sad But True' files: Last week Mozilla rolled out Firefox 3.5.3, which checks the user's version of Adobe Flash. As it turns out, in one week alone, 10 million people clicked on the Adobe update, according to Mozilla. (Submitted by ChronicColonic) More...
Google Chrome gets 64-bit version, but only for Linux
blog.internetnews.com — A 64-bit version of the Google Chrome browser is now ready, but Windows users will still have some time to wait for their version. In a mailing list posting this week, Chrome developer Dean McNamee wrote that the Google v8 JavaScript team have working on a 64-bit port. (Submitted by rtaibah) More...
Another U.S. Cybersecurity Official Resigns - 2nd This Week!
internetnews.com — Any hopes President Obama has of improving the effectiveness of the government's cybersecurity efforts took another hit today. Kwon, the director of Homeland Security's US-CERT unit plans her departure, hot on the heels of Melissa Hathaway, the lead White House official for cybersecurity. (Submitted by angel.wardriver) More...
SourceForge delivers 4 billionth open source download
blog.internetnews.com — From the 'that's a lot of downloads' files: SourceForge.net, the big open source app/code repository has hit a major milestone: 4 billion downloads. Since 1999, SourceForge has the 'go to place' for all open source downloads, but in the last couple of years, Google Code has put up a bit of challenge. (Submitted by rtaibah) More...
Amazon Kindle powered by Linux 2.6.22, FSF not impressed
blog.internetnews.com — Digging into the code that Amazon is now making available provides some really interesting insight into the underlying structure of the Kindle. For one, Kindle (at least the DX) is using a modified Linux 2.6.22 kernel. But is the Free Software Foundation Happy??? (Submitted by CommanderKern) More...
Linux : MontaVista Linux 6 Gets Market Specific.
internetnews.com — MontaVista Linux 6, officially announced yesterday is the first Linux release from MontaVista with the MSD approach. Initially MontaVista is targeting devices that include Intel's Atom, FreeScale's PowerQUICC II Pro, PowerQUICC III, i.MX processors and Texas Instruments OMAP35x processors. (Submitted by greenx) More...
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