Adobe this week took the Linux version of its Adobe Integrated Runtime product out of beta, bringing it up to speed with the versions available for Windows and Mac users.
Red Hat has released new beta versions of its enterprise and desktop Linux products, with improvements including better virtualisation and clustering features, to make the operating system a more stable platform for server farms.
Linux seller Red Hat has begun beta testing for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0, its next high-end product due to ship this autumn in the U.S. with support for several new servers.
UnitedLinux, the project uniting the operating system software of Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE Linux and Turbolinux, will begin beta-testing its new distribution in the next two weeks. The group also revealed details of how it will recruit new operating system and developer partners.
The Fedora Project has updated the 'beta' or testing edition of version 10 of its Linux distribution, which is scheduled to be completed and released to the public on 25 November.
While there's not much that's more fun than stirring up Linux and Windows zealots into a frenzy of spite against each other, we thankfully finally seem to be approaching a more measured universe in which technology choices can be made based on suitability rather than preconception.
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala was officially released overnight and marked the eleventh release of the distribution. It's attractive, polished and measured, but fails "the grandma test".
We take one of Intel's new 34nm SSD drives for a spin and find it a worthy hard disk replacement, delivering massive speed jumps when loading software. But watch out for a penalty when writing data.
I caved in. I had all intentions of pre-emptively spending my $900 government handout on a $700 HP netbook this weekend. But I was pwned by a shiny little MacBook in about the time it took white hat Charlie Miller to hack its upscale brother, the MacBook Air.
Macs are banned from many government departments because there aren't any 'approved' applications to encrypt them. So why doesn't Apple CEO Steve Jobs do something about it?
In the past few days French-based Linux company Mandriva has released a beta version of its upcoming Mandriva 2010 Linux distribution. We took it for a spin in a virtualised VMware environment.
The Fedora Project is in the final throes of testing version 10 of its Linux distribution, and is regularly releasing "snapshot" updates to Fedora 10 beta. We take you on a graphical tour of the installation and desktop of Fedora 10 beta, snapshot 2.
The first public beta of the combined Linux distribution will appear later this month, but it will have Red Hat's dominance to contend with.
Windows 7 will be one of Microsoft's greatest operating systems, if it fulfils the promise shown by the unofficial beta version we have been testing for the past couple of days.
Although Linus Torvalds didn't meet a goal to release the upcoming version of the operating system in June, the Linux leader says a test version could come as soon as next week.
Google has rethought the Internet browser some of its basic underpinnings are quite novel but users will recognise some features as they exist in other, open-source browsers on the market today.
In version 8 of IBM/Lotus's upcoming collaboration suite, the client (Notes) moves to a new Java framework while the server (Domino) gets a number of overdue enhancements.
If you're only after speed, try the Safari beta but keep your other browser, too. Security buffs should skip Safari for now.
It's only in beta, but Apple's surprise new browser, Safari, is creating major buzz. How does it rate?
Hardy Heron is an incremental set of advances on earlier versions, but all the advances are in the right direction. Unfortunately, a known and unfixed bug means we can't currently recommend it for enterprise use.
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