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Adobe Advances Flash Platform with New AIR, Cloud, Flex Solutions
At its annual MAX user conference, Adobe puts on the dog and serves up new tooling and other support for Flash. Adobe introduces Flex Builder “Gumbo,” Flash Catalyst – formerly known as “Thermo,” the availability of Adobe AIR 1.5 and a pre-release of the 64-bit Linux […]

Linux Eee Box now available, MS giving away XP?

Two months ago I commented on the non-availability of either of the two Linux versions of the Asus Eee Box 202 that had been announced months ago along with its XP-equipped sibling, which has been shipping for two months already.
It appears you can now also get Linux […]

Don’t Fear Big-Box Linux Development

News of a new Linux graphics-server project called “Wayland” crossed my desk this morning. It got me thinking: are “big-box” open source vendors going to make individual programmers irrelevant?
First, the project itself. Go check out the Phoronix.com article for the technical details; they’re fascinating enough on their own merit. Its creator, […]

Opennet reaches out to resellers
Opennet Middle East and Africa is taking part in a Red Hat virtualisation tour during the next two months calling in at Casablanca, Cairo, Dubai and Riyadh. The reseller-focused sessions will focus on the business and technical benefits of Red Hat virtualisation solutions. Opennet is the master distributor and authorised training […]

OpenSUSE Starts Steering its Own Course
It’s not easy for a Linux company to let go the reins of control over its community Linux distribution. Just ask Red Hat, which started to let go of Fedora and then decided to keep managing it (Red Hat keeps its grip on Fedora). But, now Novell is loosening its […]