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September 3rd, 2007 SystemRescueCd is a Linux system on a bootable CD-ROM for repairing your system and recovering your data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk.

May 9th, 2005 Which JVM do you want to use today?

February 9th, 2006 The title is inspired by Dr. Richard Stallman's article - Free But Shackled - The Java Trap.

July 17th, 2006 Today's bot / malware writers are leveraging open source tools and development models to improve their bots according to McAfee. Unlike viruses of the past, bots tend to be written by a group of authors, who often collaborate by using the same tools and techniques as open source developers, said Dave Marcus, security research and communications manager with McAfee's Avert Labs.

May 12th, 2005 Finding the GNU General Public License (GPL) too restrictive with regard to derived works, a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mumbai is working on an alternative license that will allow people to take commercial benefit from work derived from an open-source program. Finally someone has taken the lead to break from the clutches of GPL.

July 21st, 2009 Just a week after releasing the beta test version of Norton AntiVirus 2010, Symantec has come up with the Internet Security 2010 Beta. Syamantec's revamped Norton Internet Security 2010 provides a faster and more effective security solution.

April 1st, 2006 In a significant (read earth shattering for Java community worldwide) move Sun has announced their decision to open source Java technologies. The JCP will be disbanded in favor of open source bazaar model.

May 12th, 2005 Dr. Stallman in his article Free but shackled - Java Trap expresses his concern that Java developers may be unknowingly falling into an expensive trap. In his own words: If you develop a Java program on Sun's Java platform, you are liable to use Sun-only features without even noticing.

June 29th, 2006 Simon Phipps, chief open-source officer for Sun, said the Sun is "months" away from releasing its trademark Java programming language under an open-source license. He said Sun is ruminating over two major issues: how to keep Java compatible and ensure no particular company uses market forces as muscle for its own implementation, a move that would threaten Java's "write once, run anywhere" mantra.

October 23rd, 2008 Google Android finally delivers what was promised at the very beginning. While everyone was speculating if Android is going to be an open source platform, they have come out with Android Open Source Project, which will give public at large the opportunity to make contributions.

December 3rd, 2008 Norton Antivirus, no matter how much criticized, is still one of the most trusted and popular antivirus softwares if we consider the whole world. So I tried to play a bit with Norton Anti-virus version 11 and then come out with something that can give us a bit of a respite from the nagging 1 month subscription.

September 28th, 2007 You can download all the previously unavailable telecommunication protocols here. For example, have you ever wondered about the FAX protocol? You can now get it for free here.

May 15th, 2007 I faced an extremely weird problem of ghost DNS lookups on machines configured as NFS clients. It took quite an effort to solve it.

April 13th, 2007 I talked about xmemo as possible ipmsg alternative for Linux. Unfortunately I found it very much inferior to ipmsg.

July 2nd, 2005 Sun Microsystems is looking at providing its Java Enterprise System (J2EE) customers with a database management solution that will either take advantage of existing open-source database management technologies or developed in-house. I think they should leverage from some high quality open source database management solutions rather than re-inventing the wheel.