Open Source’s 2014: MS ‘cancer’ embrace, NASDAQ listings, and a quiet dog

Embarrassment, shame, and coming late can be good things… right?

Ho hum. Another year, another slew of open source announcements that prove the once-maligned development methodology is now so mainstream as to be tedious. Running most of the world’s most powerful supercomputers? Been there, done that. Giving retailers the ability to deliver highly customized paper coupons to consumers based on warehouse inventory nearby? So 2013!…

Apple scuttles NTP flaw in OS X

Don’t start that holiday just yet, admins…

Apple has slipped out a patch to address the Network Time Protocol (NTP) vulnerability in its OS X operating system.…

YEAR of the PENGUIN: A Linux mobile in 2015?

Choh. Just as they sort the desktop out, bloody PCs disappear

It’s nearly impossible to sum up an entire year of developments in something as large and nebulous as the world of desktop Linux, especially in a year like this one which has seen some the best releases that projects like Mint, Fedora and openSUSE have put out to date.…