Oracle join SQLite Consortium

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The H

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July 2, 2010

Oracle has joined the SQLite Consortium to demonstrate its commitment to the SQLite community and developers

Mozilla releases Firefox 1.1 for Nokia N900

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The H

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July 2, 2010

The latest update to the Nokia N900 version of Firefox for Mobile includes several changes based on user feedback, such as a new Context Menu and support for browsing in either landscape or portrait mode

A system based on Debian

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The Linux Foundation

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July 2, 2010

The idea of a Linux Mint desktop based on top of Debian Testing is quite seducing. It’s much faster than Ubuntu and the current Linux Mint desktops, it uses less resources, and it opens the door for a rolling distribution, with a continuous flow of updates and no jumps from one release to another. It’s something we’ve always been tempted to do. Needless to say, whether it’s been because of our lack of communication on that topic or not, this has been a source of numerous rumors within the community.

Key to Android’s iPhone victory is developers

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The Register

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July 2, 2010

The desktop market was won by Microsoft in large part because of its appeal to the broadest segment of the developer population — cue the Steve Ballmer fight song, complete with sweat stains and manic enthusiasm.…

Cloudera Refreshes Commercial Hadoop Suite

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internetnews.com

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July 1, 2010

New version 3 of Cloudera’s Distribution for Hadoop delivers enterprise edition, while some previously closed source technologies are now open.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Beta 2

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Aaron Aceves

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July 1, 2010

Red Hat has launch the version 6 Beta 2 of his enterprise distribution with all the features included in the final release, this new release is available to download right now for the next architectures i386, AMD64/Intel64, System z and IBM Power (64 bits).

If you want to know a little more about this check the release notes or if you want to download follow this link.

Source: Red Hat

Opera 10.60 Final

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Aaron Aceves

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July 1, 2010

Opera has launch the final version of his browser, the Opera 10.60. Some of the newest things inside the browser are:

The use of the WebM for video reproduction
The Geolocalization can help us to determinate what is best route to take, or what is the closed coffee shop in the area. The activation of this feature requires the user authorization
You can work off line with the Appcache
50% faster than the previous version of Opera
Phishing supported by AVG

With the new WebM support Opera becomes one of the firsts browser to support this standard.

Source: Opera Web Site

Review: 5 Little Linux Computers

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LinuxPlanet

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July 1, 2010

Power-frugal, space-saving, and plenty capable–here are five little boxes that either come with Linux, or can run Linux, and have plenty to like.

Eucalyptus Systems Raises $20 Million For Open-Source Private Cloud Software

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TechCrunch

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July 1, 2010

Eucalyptus Systems, creator of an open source private cloud software, has raised $20 million in funding led by New Enterprise Associates, with participation from current investors Benchmark Capital and BV Capital. This brings total capital raised to date to $25.5 million.

Eucalyptus’s infrastructure software allows enterprises to deploy scalable private and hybrid cloud computing environments. The software itself also connects to the public cloud, including Amazon Web Services. The company is using the funding to scale development, marketing and sales its software.

MySQL’s CEO M√•rten Gustaf Mickos joined Eucalytpus in March shortly after joining Benchmark Capital as an Entrepreneur in Residence last fall.

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Mercurial 1.6 released

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LWN

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July 1, 2010

Version 1.6 of the Mercurial distributed version control system has been released. The new features and bug fixes from the release can be found on the What’s New page. “The two most important new features of this release are: * pushable bookmarks. This lets you synchronize bookmarks between repositories using push and pull. * a powerful new revision query language.” Click below for the full announcement.