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Version 1.2.9 of Wireshark was released on Wednesday. Wireshark is an open source protocol analyzer and packet sniffer, which can analyze various network protocols and data packets on the network. Also, the program can use previously…

VMware has released version 7.1 of its virtualization software Workstation. With this program it is possible to create one or more virtual computers on which a large number of different operating systems can be installed. That way they…

On Wednesday, after being delayed several times due to some showstoppers, version 13 of the Linux distribution Fedora was finally released. Fedora is the non-commercial successor to Red Hat Linux, which has been targeting the business…

Oracle has released version 3.2.0 of VirtualBox, an important new milestone. This program can be used to install other operating systems on a computer in a virtual environment. That way, different OSes can be used on the same hardware.…

Tuesday version 5.3 of Amahi was released. Amahi is described by the developers as an hda, or a home digital assistant. Amahi runs on Fedora and offers shared data storage, automatic backups, secure vpn, shared applications such as the…

MySQL is a powerful open source database server that is particularly popular as a website and forum database.  The developers have released a new version of the 5.5 development branch. It concerns version 5.5.2 m2 and for more information…

The LottaNZB program focuses on downloading files via usenet and can make use of nzb files. In addition, it offers various options to extract and check the downloaded files, for example, or to fish nzb files via Newzbin. The program…

The second beta release of version 2.1 of the VoIP program Skype for Linux was released on Wednesday with version number 2.1.0.81. Downloads for the various Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Fedora, and OpenSUSE, can be found at this…

Amahi version 5.1 was released a few days ago. Amahi is described by the developers as an hda, or a Home Digital Assistant. Amahi runs on Fedora and offers shared data storage, automatic backups, secure vpn, shared applications such as…

Tor is a network that can be used to surf the Internet anonymously. All users' tcp traffic is routed through different Tor routers, after which it is no longer possible for the recipient to trace who the original sender was. This…