Posted by admin on 23rd May 2008
The ODF Alliance today greeted with scepticism Microsoft’s announcement of its intention to include support for the OpenDocument Format in the first half of 2009. “The proof will be whether and when Microsoft’s promised support for ODF is on par with its support for its own format. Governments will be looking for actual results, not promises in press releases,” said Marino Marcich, managing director of the ODF Alliance.
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Posted by admin on 15th May 2008
What is rdesktop?
rdesktop is an open source client for Windows Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user’s Windows desktop. Supported servers include Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows NT Server 4.0.
Key changes:
- Fix for potential vulnerability against compromised/malicious
- servers (reported by iDefense)
- Fix for crash with recent versions of X.Org
- Fix for connection to Windows 2008 Server
- ALSA driver added
- Sound drivers can now be selected at runtime
- Smartcard support (Alexi Volkov <alexi@my…>)
- Send physical mouse buttons rather than logical ones
Where I can get rdesktop?
rdesktop available here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/rdesktop/rdesktop-1.6.0.tar.gz?download
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Posted by admin on 15th May 2008
The New York Stock Exchange and its European subsidiary exchanges are running their trading systems on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat announced Wednesday, as it unveiled a new marquee customer.
Linux has been known to be in use at several New York financial services firms, but few have stepped up to the podium to testify on the value of their implementations. As a result of mergers and acquisitions, the New York Stock Exchange has migrated over the last few years fromHP (NYSE: HPQ)-UX to IBM (NYSE: IBM) AIX to Sun Solaris to Linux. NYSE Group CIO Steve Rubinow said the conversion to Linux followed the acquisition of the Euronext exchange in 2007. Unlike some trading companies that suggest Linux is running their secondary systems, Rubinow emphasized that Linux is running the NYSE’s mission-critical trading systems.
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Posted by admin on 15th May 2008
Mark Shuttleworth, head of Canonical and founder of the Ubuntu project, has called on other Linux developers to synchronize releases of new versions of their distros.
He also pledged to deliver the next Long Term Support (LTS) release of Ubuntu, version 10.4, in April 2010 - unless, of course, Red Hat, Novell and Debian decide to co-operate on a synchronized release at a different time.
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Posted by admin on 14th May 2008
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