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Paul Vixie and Corey Shields Evaluating Firefox Guinness World Record Attempt

Posted: 21 Jun 2008 01:47 AM CDT

Paul Vixie and Corey Shields currently serves as a judges for the Mozilla Foundation's "Download Day", an attempt to set a Guiness World Record for most downloads in a single day for a new piece of software

Linux udev tip: Assign Static SCSI Device Name

Posted: 20 Jun 2008 09:48 AM CDT

udev allows Linux users to have a dynamic /dev directory and it provides the ability to have persistent device names. In this tip you will learn about creating the static SCSI device name for /block/sdd as /dev/scsiharddisk.

Project Spacewalk: Red Hat Open Sourced RHN Software

Posted: 20 Jun 2008 07:50 AM CDT

Spacewalk is an open source (GPLv2) Linux systems management solution. It is the upstream community project from which the Red Hat Network Satellite product is derived.

Security Alert: Ubuntu Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Posted: 20 Jun 2008 05:34 AM CDT

Multiple buffer overflows were discovered in the Ubuntu Linux kernel and can be corrected by upgrading your system to latest kernel version.

Download Opensuse Linux 11 CD / DVD ISO Images

Posted: 19 Jun 2008 09:32 AM CDT

Opensuse Linux version 11.0 has been released and available for download from mirrors

Women in Linux, BSD and Open Source Projects

Posted: 18 Jun 2008 03:57 PM CDT

A list of open source project run and controlled by women in various organizations around the world.

Firefox 3 Was Download 8 Million Times In 24 Hour Period

Posted: 18 Jun 2008 03:47 PM CDT

FireFox 3 exceeded 8 million downloads in 24 hour period. You need to be patient as judges and Guinness World Records validate record attempt.

From Redmond With Love - IE Team Sends A Cake TO Mozilla

Posted: 18 Jun 2008 02:44 PM CDT

In honor of today's Firefox 3 release (17-June-2008), Microsoft's Internet Explorer team gave a cake to Mozilla.

Windows Vista Failure: Pay Extra $50 To Get Aging Windows XP

Posted: 18 Jun 2008 12:39 PM CDT

Want XP on a new Dell? You'll pay up to $50 extra for the aging OS - Vostro line gets surcharges; Latitude, OptiPlex, Precision get no-cost downgrades.