A Video Peek At Android 2.2 and Flash 10.1

Linux.com 20 May 2010 11:05
Today, at the Google I/O conference, Google unveiled Android 2.2 (Froyo), which adds a number of enhancements to the platform, including Wi-Fi and USB tethering. With Android 2.2 phones, you'll be able to set up instant-on hotspots, and version 2.2 is also much faster than previous versions.

Linux Distros and the Codec Conundrum

Linux.com 20 May 2010 09:05
Codecs have been the topic of much heated conversation on the Linux blogs of late, thanks largely to...

Flash Embraces Google's Open Video Codec

Linux.com 19 May 2010 13:05
Adobe extends Dreamweaver to HTML5 Google I/O  Adobe has rolled out an HTML5 development kit and announced that Flash will use Google's freshly open sourced VP8 video codec. The company wants you to know that despite its tussle with Steve Jobs, it very much believes in...

The First DRM Pull Request For Linux 2.6.35 Kernel

Linux.com 19 May 2010 09:05
The Linux 2.6.34 kernel was released only three days ago, but David Airlie has emailed Linus Torvalds and the Linux Kernel Mailing List with the first DRM pull request for the Linux 2.6.35 kernel...

Report: 50 Open Source Security Tools

Linux.com 18 May 2010 16:05
The Free/Open Source software world offers great thundering herds of excellent security software; Cynthia Harvey presents a sampling of 50 FOSS applications for everything from anti-malware to forensics to Internet gateways to networking monitoring, and then some.

Dev Goes 'Wild' with H.264 Firefox

Linux.com 18 May 2010 12:05
A Dutch open source developer is building a version of Firefox that uses the HTML5 video tag in tandem with the H.264 codec.…...

Linux Gains Flash Filesystem

Linux.com 18 May 2010 09:05
Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux 2.6.34, which is notable for adding two filesystems: Ceph for distributed and cloud-based applications, and LogFS, which is optimized for flash-memory based devices. Other new features include a faster KVM virtualization driver based on Vhost.net techno...

Samba Update Fixes DoS Vulnerabilities

Linux.com 18 May 2010 09:05
DoS vulnerabilities in Samba can be exploited to remotely crash the smbd service. Exploits are already in circulation...

Report: Linux 2.6.34 Kernel Debuts With New Filesystems

Linux.com 17 May 2010 21:05
The newest Linux kernel release continues its rapid development pace, adding a pair of new filesystems and boosting virtualization performance.

Review: 6 Advanced OpenOffice.org Extensions

Linux.com 17 May 2010 15:05
The open source OpenOffice productivity suite is a cross-platform powerhouse, and you can can add additional functionality by installing extensions. Eric Geier offers six OpenOffice extensions for analyzing readability, special text effects, advanced math functions, and more.