Virtual appliances made easy with rBuilder

Software appliance tools maker rPath has added CentOS and Ubuntu support to rBuilder, its web-based software appliance constructor.

November 21, 2008 - 09:53AM CT - by Ryan Paul

Microsoft to aid in war on terror, builds software for DHS

Microsoft has joined forces with GIS vendor ESRI to build a suite of collaboration tools for intelligence gathering and processing. This software will be used by the Department of Homeland Security's fusion centers.

November 21, 2008 - 09:19AM CT - by Ryan Paul

IBM to buy Transitive

IBM has announced plans to acquire Transitive, the company that makes the code translation technology behind Apple's Rosetta. IBM says Transitive's software will enable x86 Linux applications to run on Power systems.

November 20, 2008 - 07:55AM CT - by Ryan Paul

Mozilla revenue $75 million in 2007, up 12 percent

Mozilla has published its financial statements for 2007, which reveal that the organization brought in $75 million. Mozilla chairperson Mitchell Baker says that Firefox's broader user base and expanded geographical reach are signs of success.

November 19, 2008 - 10:05PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Google's Android mobile platform ported to BeagleBoard

Google Linux-based Android mobile platform has been ported to TI's ARM-based hackable BeagleBoard. The port demonstrates the viability of Android on alternative hardware.

November 19, 2008 - 04:33PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Google polishes Chrome with new features

Google has added a new bookmark manager to its open source Chrome web browser. This feature isn't yet included in an official release, but it is available through the developer update channel.

November 19, 2008 - 04:09PM CT - by Ryan Paul

EU launches public consultation on Internet security

The European Union has launched a public consultation on Internet security and is requesting feedback from the public about how to address network infrastructure security challenges.

November 19, 2008 - 10:30AM CT - by Ryan Paul

Amazon CloudFront turns S3 into content distribution network

Amazon has announced the launch of CloudFront, a new content delivery network service built on top of the company's cloud storage platform.

November 19, 2008 - 08:21AM CT - by Ryan Paul

Adobe to close desktop-mobile Flash Player gap with ARM port

Adobe has announced plans to bring Flash Player 10 and the AIR web runtime to the ARM architecture. This port is the beginning of an effort by Adobe to close the gap between Flash in desktop and mobile contexts.

November 18, 2008 - 01:03AM CT - by Ryan Paul

Coherence brings UPnP to GNOME

The Coherence framework is a Python-based implementation of the UPnP protocol and the Digital Living Network Alliance standard. The framework is being used to integrate UPnP support into GNOME applications like Nautilus and Totem.

November 17, 2008 - 04:33PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Firefox 3.1 nightly finally gets linking in source viewer

The HTML source viewer in the latest Firefox nightlies now supports links on URLs and relative paths. This addition finally closes a feature request that was submitted in 1999.

November 17, 2008 - 04:01PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Adobe starts 64-bit Flash testing with Linux alpha

Adobe has released an alpha version of Flash Player for 64-bit Linux, the first for any OS. This marks a big step forward for Adobe's commitment to treating Linux as a first-class citizen. First impressions inside.

November 17, 2008 - 12:29PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Banshee 1.4 media player offers improved device support, G1 compatibility

The Banshee development team has released version 1.4. The new version of the popular open source media player includes improved support for audio player devices, including the Android-based T-Mobile G1.

November 17, 2008 - 05:15AM CT - by Ryan Paul

Ubuntu aims at mobile computing, netbooks with ARM port

Canonical has announced an official port of the Ubuntu Linux distribution for the ARM architecture. This move positions Ubuntu to be the Linux platform of choice for upcoming ARM-based netbook devices.

November 16, 2008 - 02:01PM CT - by Ryan Paul

This week in open source: G1, Songbird, Parrot

This week in open source, Ars looked at hacks that bring Debian to the G1 and Creative's open source X-Fi driver.

November 15, 2008 - 04:15PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Things that go Clang in the night: LLVM 2.4 released

Version 2.4 of the Low Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) has been officially released. Ars takes a look at the Clang compiler and some of the new features in the latest version of LLVM.

November 13, 2008 - 09:25AM CT - by Ryan Paul

Parrot Foundation advisory board joined by BBC, ActiveState

The BBC and ActiveState have become the first two members of the Parrot advisory board. They are each providing $5,000 per year to help fund ongoing development of the multi-language virtual machine.

November 12, 2008 - 02:30PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Colombia tests OLPC laptops... running Windows XP

The government of Colombia has announced a deal with Microsoft to test thousands of One Laptop Per Child XO laptops running Windows XP. A prominent Red Hat developer who works full time on OLPC's Linux platform denies that OLPC is leaving Linux behind.

November 12, 2008 - 07:30AM CT - by Ryan Paul

How to: coding a Drop.io uploader for GNOME with Python

This tutorial walks you through the steps of building a Drop.io uploader in Python that integrates with GNOME's Nautilus file manager. Complete source code is included and made available under the GPL.

November 11, 2008 - 10:31AM CT - by Ryan Paul

Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth opens up on mobility and design

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth participated in a Q&A session with Linux users and community members during Ubuntu Open Week. He talked about the success of Dell's Ubuntu preinstallation offerings, his hopes for Linux in the mobile market, and ways that Canonical is giving back to the open source software community.

November 09, 2008 - 10:30PM CT - by Ryan Paul