Open Source Insider

March 2011

• Adobe Flash Player 10.2 now available for Android tablets and mobile devices

  Adrian Bridgwater 31 Mar 2011

Adobe Flash Player 10.2 has improved scrolling of web pages and better "embedded" in-browser experiences

• Who really commits code to open source?

  Adrian Bridgwater 30 Mar 2011

Do customers who use commercially licensed versions of open source software dominate the code commits?

• Camino web browser, for Mac open source purists only?

  Adrian Bridgwater 27 Mar 2011

Camino is an open source web browser for Mac OS X users that requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

• April is 'Linux & Android month' in San Francisco

  Adrian Bridgwater 24 Mar 2011

April sees four developer conferences in San Francisco

• The fox is out of the box, a Firefox 4 screenshot selection

  Adrian Bridgwater 22 Mar 2011

A small selection of screen-shots to show off the launch of the Firefox 4 open source web browser with its new tabbing functionality

• Killing Linpus Linux, reaching for Ubuntu on netbooks

  Adrian Bridgwater 21 Mar 2011

Removing Linpus Linux and installing Ubuntu on a netbook is not always that easy, some of the challenges are detailed here.

• Superzapping desktop Linux for a 10x speed boost

  Adrian Bridgwater 18 Mar 2011

Linux developer Mike Galbraith created a patch just 233 lines long that was designed to improve the scheduler inside the Linux kernel and speed it up 10x

• Puppy Linux sit! roll over, there now - good dog

  Adrian Bridgwater 17 Mar 2011

A short overview of the Puppy Linux operating system

• Google arms "remote kill" to blast malicious Android apps

  Adrian Bridgwater 16 Mar 2011

Google has taken steps to remove malicious applications from the Android Market webstore and used a "remote kill" function to clean infected devices.

• Android, iPhone and iPad apps get naughty code license report

  Adrian Bridgwater 10 Mar 2011

OpenLogic has released the results of a scan and license compliance assessment of 635 leading mobile applications.

• Rackspace parts open source clouds with formal support & services

  Adrian Bridgwater 09 Mar 2011

Open source cloud computing organisations deploying OpenStack now have option to receive formal service and support.

• Five steps to open source license management heaven

  Adrian Bridgwater 08 Mar 2011

Open source software licence management processes are a necessary part of open source software adoption

• Death, taxes and open source software certainties

  Adrian Bridgwater 02 Mar 2011

Coverity Scan 2010 Open Source Integrity Report identifies Android vulnerabilities at the kernel level

• Will Motorola's Xoom "Android Tablet" work for software developers?

  Adrian Bridgwater 01 Mar 2011

Motorola Xoom "Android Smart Tablet" examined under Acid 3 tests from a developer's point of view.