Date: Mon, 11. May 2009 15:05:11

thefickler touts an interview in tech.blorge with Lenovo's Worldwide Competitive Analyst, Matt Kohut, who spoke about his vision of the future of netbooks, which involves Windows 7, bigger screens, built-in 3G, touch integration, and lower prices. Linux fans will be disappointed to hear that Kohut thinks Windows 7 will dominate future generations of netbooks because it offers a better, more familiar solution, with the benefits of touch. Quoting Kohut: "The other challenge has been, in order to keep the price points down, a lot of people thought that Linux would be the savior of all of these netbooks. You know, there were a lot of netbooks loaded with Linux, which saves $50 or $100 or whatever it happens to be, based on Microsoft's pricing and, again, from an industry standpoint, there were a lot of returns because people didn't know what to do with it. Linux, even if you've got a great distribution and you can argue which one is better or not, still requires a lot more hands-on than somebody who is using Windows. So, we've seen overwhelmingly people wanting to stay with Windows because it just makes more sense: you just take it out of the box and it's ready to go."pa href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/10/2147256amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/05/10/2147256"/a/ppa href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/10/2147256amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nrt2FANYmsA4BeN2QpVAK9LnFv4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nrt2FANYmsA4BeN2QpVAK9LnFv4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nrt2FANYmsA4BeN2QpVAK9LnFv4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nrt2FANYmsA4BeN2QpVAK9LnFv4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/BAUNwffZkWc" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Fri, 10. October 2008 15:08:25

Apple released a large security update that touches on nearly two dozen Mac applications and features. The release includes updates for Apache, PHP, ClamAV and MySQL.br/ - Apple has released a massive update for Mac OS X 10.5 and Mac OS X 10.4.11 that plugs security gaps in 20 Mac applications and features. The update, released Oct. 9, is available on Apples Web site. Several of the patches deal with Mac OS X technologies, such as a fix for an issue in Script Edit... pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/ELX2q3q1HRytd-wdIbLToDdqulQ/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/ELX2q3q1HRytd-wdIbLToDdqulQ/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~f/RSS/tech?a=iaQxY0tr"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/RSS/tech?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~f/RSS/tech?a=tgSLkOYJ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/RSS/tech?i=tgSLkOYJ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~f/RSS/tech?a=H3dO3aE8"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/RSS/tech?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~f/RSS/tech?a=wgruvyAV"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/RSS/tech?d=43" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~f/RSS/tech?a=EDcBKCXu"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/RSS/tech?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~f/RSS/tech?a=V8u3UyBT"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/RSS/tech?d=54" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~f/RSS/tech?a=RZXmHNUT"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/RSS/tech?i=RZXmHNUT" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RSS/tech/~4/y0HfRpld_xk" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Thu, 13. August 2009 00:24:56

Apple issues an update to fix a bug affecting Mac OS X, including server editions. The patch comes shortly after Apple pushed out 18 fixes to users.br/ - After plugging a series of security holes in Mac OS X on Aug. 6, Apple has issued another security update. This time the patch is for the BIND service, and is aimed at systems running Mac OS X 10.5.8 and v10.4.11, including server editions. According to Apple, a logic issue in the handling of ... pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PZ5DNQjD4JN8R_PySnKdpwFqsH0/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PZ5DNQjD4JN8R_PySnKdpwFqsH0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PZ5DNQjD4JN8R_PySnKdpwFqsH0/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PZ5DNQjD4JN8R_PySnKdpwFqsH0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=SVAMJEo1rsw:iyjOiMeiVo4:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=SVAMJEo1rsw:iyjOiMeiVo4:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?i=SVAMJEo1rsw:iyjOiMeiVo4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=SVAMJEo1rsw:iyjOiMeiVo4:7Q72WNTAKBA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=SVAMJEo1rsw:iyjOiMeiVo4:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=SVAMJEo1rsw:iyjOiMeiVo4:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=SVAMJEo1rsw:iyjOiMeiVo4:l6gmwiTKsz0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=SVAMJEo1rsw:iyjOiMeiVo4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?i=SVAMJEo1rsw:iyjOiMeiVo4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RSS/tech/~4/SVAMJEo1rsw" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Sun, 13. December 2009 22:48:35

Reuters - Michael Widenius, creator of MySQL database, which could become the stumbling block for Oracle in its Sun takeover, has launched an Internet campaign trying to line up MySQL users to stop the deal.

Date: Mon, 5. September 2011 08:04:50

An anonymous reader writes "The National Security Agency has submitted a new database, Accumulo, to the Apache Foundation for incubation. Accumulo is based on the original BigTable paper with some extensions such as the ability to provide cell-level security. It appears there are some hurdles that must be cleared concerning copyright before the project could be accepted." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Wed, 6. August 2008 17:03:03

Microsoft is releasing SQL Server 2008 to manufacturing after several delays. Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 will help Microsoft compete with Oracle and its 11g database, and IBM and its DB2 9.5 database. SQL Server 2008 will be generally available within two weeks. - After delays and speculation, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is being released to manufacturing Aug. 6. Microsoft officials did not give a definitive general availability date, but a spokesperson said it is expected to be within two weeks. Pricing for SQL Server is expected to remain the same, which M...

Date: Wed, 3. March 2010 23:35:00

Way back in the Mesozoic era of computing (also known as the early 1980s), we didn't have slick little netbooks or big, powerful desktops. Businesses that used computers at all generally relied on Unix servers or ancient mainframes driving terminals at employees' workstations. Meanwhile, home users could choose from a narrow assortment of systems, none of which bear much resemblance to the array of computers for sale today; and one of the most popular models back then was the Commodore 64.

Date: Fri, 19. November 2010 01:16:10

climenole writes "Phoronix recently published an article regarding a ~200 line Linux Kernel patch that improves responsiveness under system strain. Well, Lennart Poettering, a Red Hat developer, replied to Linus Torvalds on a mailing list with an alternative to this patch that does the same thing yet all you have to do is run 2 commands and paste 4 lines in your ~/.bashrc file." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Thu, 15. September 2011 16:01:16

ITProPortalMicrosoft Talks Evolution of Windows Server 8PC MagazineThe excitement that Microsoft's Server 8 team generated over the upcoming release of the latest iteration of its OS was infectious. Yet, the man leading the Server 8 effort resonates nothing less than calm, cool confidence. ...Microsoft Cracks Live Migration ProblemPCWorldWindows Server 8 Reveals Management, Targets VMwareeWeekDespite enterprise dominance, Microsoft struggles in Web server marketArs TechnicaCRN -InfoWorld -Inquirerall 86 news articles »

Date: Fri, 1. May 2009 15:04:43

portscan writes "OpenBSD 4.5 has been released. New and extended platforms include sparc64, and added device drivers. OpenSSH 5.2 is included, plus a number of tweaks, bugfixes, and enhancements. See the announcement page for a full list. OpenBSD is a security-oriented UNIX/BSD operating system." As per OpenBSD tradition, of course there's a song.pa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/01/0617219amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/05/01/0617219"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/01/0617219amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YO5AT_rK3vxngXVOZAvSFKhn3DY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YO5AT_rK3vxngXVOZAvSFKhn3DY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YO5AT_rK3vxngXVOZAvSFKhn3DY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YO5AT_rK3vxngXVOZAvSFKhn3DY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/exvAva-ur84" height="1" width="1"/