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More Bugs Found In Firefox And Mozilla
On your
marks, get set (to download patches . . .).
Following Monday, February 7th's disclosure of spoofing vulnerabilities
in most non-IE web browsers, a security researcher Tuesday logged
another few bugs in Firefox browser and the full-fledged suite,
Mozilla. The flaws, involving some user action, can be exploited
by crackers to drop code onto a PC and, among other things, enable
them to steal cookies. More details on
TechWeb. And don't forget to check mozilla.org
for those patches!
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Open Source Community Gets Legal Protection
Open
source software developers have received a measure of protection
from litigation related to the components of their products with
the formation of the Software Freedom Law Center. The center was
established by Columbia University law professor Eben
Moglen, an authority on software copyright regulations,
and has received US$4 million from the Open Source Development Labs
(OSDL).
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Acclimating
To Open Source
Open source software is already powering computer servers at many
organizations. Now with the growing popularity of programs like
Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, open source is making new inroads
on the desktop. And as more IT managers make the transition to open
source, they're finding that the road is a bit bumpy, but ultimately
satisfying.
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OpenSolaris.org now “open” for business
The
Solaris operating system is being released under the terms of the
OSI-approved, Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)
Version 1.0. Millions of development hours worth of code and over
1,600 patents are being contributed to the open source community.
We know that innovation happens everywhere. And we're going to stand
shoulder to shoulder with you. To push Solaris. And see how far
we -- together
-- can take it.
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Sun Overwhelms Open Source Patent Move
According
to The Inquirer, Sun will be allowing patents on over 1600 products
to be used by the open source community, making Sun the largest
open source code contributor in the world. The Inquirer goes
on
to report . . .
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NetBeans
4.1
Early Access Release!
NetBeans
4.1 supports development of applications for the J2EE 1.4 Platform
and their deployment to the Sun Java System Application Server 8.1
Platform Edition.
Highlights include these and more:
* Create a J2EE application, automatically add EJB modules and Web
modules, and deploy the application.
* Create an EJB module with EJBs (session beans are supported in
Early Access 1), deploy the EJB module either as a stand-alone module
or packaged in a J2EE application.
* Create a Web module, generate calls to EJBs, and deploy the Web
module either as a stand-alone Web application or packaged in a
J2EE application.
Visit
the NetBeans.org download
center for your copy.
And
for a top level view about the NetBeans.org community in action,
subscribe to the weekly
newsletter and the monthly NetBeans Edge.
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OpenOffice.org
1.1.4 Now Available
OpenOffice.org announced the availability of the 1.1.4 version of
its open source office suite. It has bug fixes since to the 1.1.3
release. Find those changes in the release
notes and download the source below.
http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.4/index.html
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Announcing
Grid Engine 6.0 Update 3
TGrid Engine
6.0 Update 3 is now ready and courtesy binaries are available for
download.
The SGE 6.0u3 release fixes
bugs of the software, installation procedure and man
pages. Grid
Engine 6.0 is an important step forward to simplify Grid Computing
at the Enterprise and Cluster Grid level. Important new features
of Grid Engine 6.0 are support for flexible to use cluster queues,
resource reservation and availability of the job submission and
control library DRMAA. http://gridengine.sunsource.net/servlets/ProjectDownloadList
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java.net
- The Source for Java™ Technology Collaboration
Start
a project, join
a project. Comment on wikis,
blogs,
and other forums. Ask questions from experts. Get valuable tips
and information in the javapedia.
But whatever you do, join
the the java.net community, now over 100,000 members strong, it's
THE community for java developers.
http://www.java.net/index.html
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JXTA
J2SE release, 2.3 "Jambalaya" Release is available
Jxta.org
is pleased to announce the availability of a new JXTA J2SE release,
2.3 "Jambalaya". A lot of progress has been made in this
release and there is a lot to be excited about! The JXTA Jambalaya
release provides significant functional enhancements of the JXTA J2SE
platform, some important performance and scalability improvements,
along with a number of important bug fixes. Binary, and source downloads
are available at: http://download.jxta.org/stablebuilds/index.html |
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Grid Engine |
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Distributed Resource Management for Grid Computing |
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Interoperability
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The
Interoperability Prototype for Liberty Project |
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JRMS |
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Java Libraries and Services for Building Reliable Multicast-Aware Applications |
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java.net |
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The
Source for Java™ Technology Collaboration |
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JXTA |
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Project JXTA - distributed computing using peer-to-peer topology |
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NetBeans |
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Java IDE |
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OpenOffice.org |
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Office Productivity Suite |
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Abicheck |
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A utility for checking an application binary's use of library interfaces
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Ant |
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A
Java Based Build Tool |
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Autofs NG |
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An automounter for Linux allowing for better interoperability between Solaris and Linux
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Batik |
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A
Java Based Toolkit For Scalable Vector Graphics |
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Crimson |
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A
Java XML Parser Derived from the Sun Project X Parser |
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ebXMLrr |
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OASIS ebXML Registry Reference Implementation Project |
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Evolution-jescs |
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Evolution
connector for JES Calendar Server |
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FreeTTS |
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A
speech synthesizer written entirely in the Java programming language |
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GCold |
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A benchmark to stress old-gen collection |
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GNUlpr |
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Printing |
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Gnome |
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UNIX
Desktop, Development Platform, and Office Productivity Applications |
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IPMItool |
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A command-line interface to systems supporting the Intelligent Platform Management Interface |
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JDesktop Integration Components (JDIC) |
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Aimed
to make Java™ technology-based applications ("Java applications")
first-class citizens of current desktop platforms without sacrificing
platform independence. |
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JDesktop Network Components (JDNC) |
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Aimed to reduce the effort and expertise required to build rich, data-centric, Java desktop clients for J2EE-based network services. |
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Java_Make_Tool |
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A Make Tool for the Java™ Language |
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JavaServer Faces |
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JavaServer Faces technology simplifies building user interfaces for JavaServer applications. |
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Mozilla |
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A
Web Browser |
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PDM
Primes |
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Prime Number Generation Code |
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Solaris
I18N Framework |
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X
Window System Technology |
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Sphinx-4 |
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A speech recognizer written entirely in the Java™ programming language |
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Standard Type Services Framework |
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A
new API for text & font handling the display of text on Unix and Linux
systems |
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Tomcat |
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The
Reference Implementation For the Java Servlet 2.2 and JSP 1.1 Technologies |
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TracingJVM |
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A modified Java™ Virtual Machine used to gather data on the behavior of Java applications |
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WBEM |
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Java
implementation of the Web-based Enterprise Management (WBEM) standard |
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Xalan |
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An
XSLT processor for transforming XML documents into HTML, text, or
other XML document types. |
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XACML |
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XACML
OASIS Open Standard for security. |
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