Posts Tagged ‘Open Source’
Ubuntu 11.10, the Oneiric Ocelot, is released!
Friday, October 14th, 2011Canonical just rolled out their newest version of the operating system, Ubuntu 11.10 with the codename Oneiric Ocelot. Ubuntu has a proven track record of releasing updates every six months that include new features, stability improvements and latest versions of the software.
One of the main reasons why we, at QBurst, use Ubuntu on 75% of our computers is the stability it provides. Canonical, the Ubuntu company, has always made sure that their users get updates every six months with a lot of changes. (more…)
The Battle of the Touch Phones
Monday, July 19th, 2010Touch phones from iPhone, HTCs and other brands have been around for a while, where as Nokia had not come up with their smart phones until recently. Nokia offers most of the latest technologies, but they have had a typical vintage ‘phone’ look. During February 2010, the buzz for open sources for mobile software and OS grew stronger with the merger of moblin (mobile linux from Intel) and maemo (FOSS initiative for mobiles and other handhelds from Nokia) and which gave birth to the Meego operating system. Both maemo and moblin could be installed on mobile phones and applications on these platforms could be developed in C/C++.
Minimize Security Flaws Using Google's Skipfish
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Open Source Application
Skipfish is an open source scanner written in C language used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. Users can compile the code and execute it for installation. Skipfish crawls through the web application, detects the security probes and generates a report for security assessments.
Watch out for Google Chrome OS
Friday, July 10th, 2009In its endeavor to be the leader on the software space, Google Inc has announced its foray into the manufacture of Operating System, with its maiden project named ‘Google Chrome OS‘. Google has already locked its horns with Microsoft on numerous projects and the present one will intensify the competition. Being the 90% market shareholder of the OS market, it will be interesting to see how Microsoft reacts to this concern. Since Google believes on Open Source concept, if the Chrome OS project is rolled out successfully, then it will revolutionize the entire PC, Laptop and OS markets.
In its official blog, Google explains more about Chrome OS, which aims the Netbook market initially. Google Chrome OS is expected to hit the market by the second half of 2010.
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