Taking the Pulse of the Eclipse Ecosystem
Java training and education has never been easy. Not only are the language and its third-party and community offerings constantly moving targets, each developer has his or her own preferences, plug-ins stock and habits. What’s more, the “book knowledge” gained in many course settings can dif…
Astaro: Tapping the Channel for safety degree Revenue
Why sell somebody else’s product line when you can do a better job offering your own? That was the question that ultimately pushed Jan Hichert, CEO of Astaro, and two other cofounders to develop their own Net protection solutions for a market they viewed as needy of attention — the small- t…
New Version of Xen Hypervisor Hits the Streets
Xen.org, the developer of the open source Xen project, on Wednesday announced the release of the Xen 3.3 hypervisor engine. The product is the outcome of a distributed development effort by senior engineers from more than 50 main hardware, software and protection vendors. Xen 3.3 includes en…
Mozilla Introduces New Ubiquity Mashup Machine
Mozilla Labs launched a new prototype Tuesday aimed at giving Web users new ways to create mashups of online substance. Dubbed “Ubiquity,” the technology is Mozilla’s solution what it sees as a common and time-consuming problem Web surfers face when they try to compile data from the Web. “Mo…
Dell Takes Aim at Emerging Markets With Simplified PCs
Dell is going after emerging markets with a new line of low-cost computers. The Vostro notebooks and desktops are the company’s first models targeted specifically at China, India and a handful of other Asian, African and Latin American nations. The systems will sell for about the equivalent …
One Less Windows User
As editor for LinuxInsider for more than a year now, I figured the duration was right to start walking the walk with my personal machine. So I took my Dell Inspiron 1150 to that year’s LinuxWorld Conference & Expo with the intention of switching my operating system to one of the many Lin…
Firefox to Gulp JavaScript Faster With New TraceMonkey Feature
Mozilla has announced the launch of a new feature for its Firefox Web browser designed to manufacture it perform faster. Called “TraceMonkey,” the feature is an evolution of Firefox’s SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine and will be built into Firefox 3.1, according to the company. To increase Jav…
Thunderbird: Way Beyond E-Mail
While postal services want to promote letter writing, the trend is clearly working against them. With a push of the button, an e-mail lands in the inbox of its recipient before a letter writer can even moisten the stamp. The tools of the trade are e-mail programs known as “clients.” They are…
Hackers Get Under Red Hat’s Skin
Red Hat issued a protection advisory Friday notifying customers that some of its servers were compromised final week due to a network attack. The company called the advisory critical and said it sent out the careful primarily for those who may obtain Red Hat binary packages via channels othe…
Microsoft and Seinfeld: A Comedy of Errors?
It’s not often we here at LinuxInsider get to write about celebrities — other than the Richard Stallman variety, of course — and indeed, many of the geeks who grace our pages from instance to day seem to shun the limelight rather than seek it out. So it was with great glee that week that w…
