Apple Keyboards Vulnerable To Firmware Hack
osnews.com — Almost everything has a processor and/or memory chips these days, including keyboards. Apple's keyboards are no exception; they have 8Kb of flash memory, and 256 bytes of RAM. K. Chen has found a way to very easily install keyloggers and other possibly malicious code right inside these Apple keyboards. Proof of concept code is here as well.. (Submitted by inactive) More...
Linux : Top 500 List Dominated by x86, Linux.
osnews.com — It's that time of the year again: the Top 500 list of supercomputers has been published, as they do every six months. Just for fun, I decided to compare the list released this month to then-current list when OSNews launched; we started in August 1997, so let's compare the list of today to the one from June 1997. (Submitted by greenx) More...
Linux : Mozilla and Google Announce HTML-Based Extensions.
osnews.com — It appears that great minds think alike (or in the case of open-source software and the close-ties between Google and Mozilla, share-alike). Within a week of each other both Mozilla and Google have announced new initiatives to allow for extensions to their browsers to be written using regular HTML / JavaScript and CSS, greatly lowering the bar for (Submitted by greenx) More...
Shuttleworth on Wine
osnews.com — They both play an important role, but fundamentally, the Free software ecosystem needs to thrive on its own rules. It is *different* to the proprietary software universe. We need to make a success of our own platform on our own terms. If Linux is just another way to run Windows apps, we can't win - os/2 tried that. (Submitted by motang) More...
GNOME 3.0 To Get GNOME Shell, Zeitgeist
osnews.com — Only a few days ago, we ran an article on the future of KDE and GNOME, and which of the two had the brighter future based on their developmental processes. Barely has that discussion ended, or the GNOME engineering team comes with a pretty daunting plan to introduce a fairly massive reworking of the GNOME interface for GNOME 3.0 (2.30). (Submitted by toomanymirrors) More...
Ballmer: Linux Bigger Competitor than Apple
osnews.com — Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer had some interesting things to say yesterday about which companies Microsoft sees as its competitors in the client operating system space. You'd think Apple was their number one competitor - and you'd be wrong. (Submitted by ha3er0) More...
Windows 3.1 running on a Nokia N95
osnews.com — In what can only be called "totally frakking awesome", someone installed Microsoft Windows 3.1 on a Nokia N95. By using DOSBox, Polish developer Marcin-PRV was able to install the ageing operating system on the Symbian-powered smartphone, allowing both operating systems to run side-by-side. (Submitted by badqat) More...
Linux Version of Chrome To Use Gtk+
osnews.com — Google initially thought that a Windows clone would be acceptable, since Chrome itself is already such a fast application. However, the people working on the Linux version of Chrome made a case for using Gtk+ instead, and Google went with that option. (Submitted by motang) More...
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