Adobe warns about another Acrobat vulnerability

Adobe warns about another Acrobat vulnerability
Adobe has released another warning related to their Acrobat range of products.
The company said that these new vulnerabilities are critical in nature and they are working on issuing fixes for them.
Adobe said that the following products are affected:
Adobe Reader 9.1.3, Acrobat 9.1.3, Adobe Reader 8.1.6, and [...]

Mono Project Announces Mono 2.0 for Cross-Platform Microsoft .NET Development

- Developers can now run .NET applications on Linux, Solaris, Unix & Mac platforms
Bangalore, India — Oct.8, 2008 — The Mono(R) project, an open source initiative sponsored by Novell, today announced the availability of Mono 2.0, an open source, cross-platform .NET development framework. Mono 2.0 provides all the necessary software to develop and run [...]

Mono 2.0 on Linux released

Mono 2.0 on Linux released
The developers behind the Mono project have released Mono 2.0.
Mono 2.0 would enable the users on Linux, Mac OS X and UNIX platforms to run .Net-based applications.
The developers said that this second edition of the software leverages Microsoft’s .Net Framework 2.0 programming model.
Miguel de Icaza, vice president of developer platforms [...]

Web Help Desk Launches Version 9 Cross-Platform Help Desk Software

MacsDesign Studio LLC, developers of the leading cross-platform help desk software solution, Web Help Desk, today announced the availability of Version 9, a major update to its flagship service management solution. Web Help Desk Software Version 9 adds rules-based voting and approval process for change requests, an extensible plug-in architecture for popular 3rd party asset [...]

SCO Group told to pay Novell royalties for Unix

SCO Group told to pay Novell royalties for Unix
U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball has now ordered SCO Group to pay Novell more than $2.5 million in royalties.
These royalties are to be paid for disputes related to the UNIX OS.
This is however much lower than the figure of around $20 million which Novell had initially demanded.
SCO [...]

Wine 0.9.56 released

Wine 0.9.56 released

The developers behind the Wine project have announced the availability of version 0.9.56.
Wine is a free implementation of Windows on Unix making it possible for the users of Linux to run applications originally designed for Windows operating system.
The changelog for this latest release:
– Proper handling of OpenGL/Direct3D windows with menu bars.
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SCO survives with a $100 million investment

SCO survives with a $100 million investment
SCO has been in the news for all the wrong reasons in the recent times. The company is known for their claims of ownership of copyright to software code used in the Linux operating system.
The company recently filed for bankruptcy. Though, it has now stated that two parties have [...]

Wine 0.9.52 released!

Wine 0.9.52 released!

Yet another update from the developers behind the Wine project. The latest release now is 0.9.52.
Wine is a free implementation of Windows on Unix/Linux which enables the users to run Windows applications on these operating systems.
The changelog of this latest release:
– Improved graphics tablet support.
– Support for [...]

Why amaroK ‘Roks’

Why amaroK ‘Roks’
Yes, I’m talking about amaroK, the free, open source music player, currently only for Linux and Unix, but soon to be available for Windows and Mac OS X. As the saying goes, there are two kinds of people in the world: those who use amaroK, and those who don’t. amaroK is the ultimate [...]

Mac Pilot 2.4.5 Released – Numerous new Leopard enhancements

The newest version of Mac Pilot, from Koingo Software, not only sports full Leopard compatibility but over 67 new features since Leopard’s release just under a month ago. Turn off menubar translucency, disable alternating row colors in the Finder, show Recent items in the Dock as a Stack, disable the 3D Dock appearance, and more.
The [...]

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