November 23rd, 2011 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft going to release Windows 8 on next year with several new features, the new operating system can be purchased online with a simple installation that takes few minutes. Installation processes takes about 11 mouse clicks to make it as simple as possible and require 3GB of free hard disk space. Upgrading from previous windows [...]
September 18th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft rolls out their new OS after every three years. Windows 7 was launched in the year 2010, so it is said that Windows 8 would be rolled out in 2013. Bill Gates in his blog states that, “We have already completed almost half of the part for Windows 8, we are looking forward to [...]
May 27th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua A leading security researcher has warned that Google risks repeating Apple’s mistakes on security with its new Chrome OS. Google Chrome OS is a Linux-based operating system designed to work exclusively with web applications. Chrome netbooks running the new OS will be available from Google’s partners Samsung and Acer from June. In a launch announcement, [...]
May 3rd, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The new version of OpenBSD 4.9 has been released not at the traditional day as we used to 1st May but after 2 days. Today the Open source operating system development team OpenBSD announced new release OpenBSD 4.9, this new version support the latest 64-bit processors. One of the main innovations of version 4.9 is [...]
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Tags: open source, OpenBSD, OpenBSD4.9, Operating System 
48 Comments » April 17th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Today all operating systems require a special new hardware that may eliminate your old computer from being used. I don’t like the idea to ignore a computer that lived for more than 5 years because new operating system and application needs to have modern hardware. Many educational institute, public enterprises or ministries do not have [...]
Posted in Open-Source, Operating System Tags: Linux, Lubuntu, open source, Operating System, Xubuntu 32 Comments » March 21st, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Installation, configuration, and management of software are large part of most system administrator’s jobs. Admin respond to installation and configuration requests from users, apply updates to fix security problems, and supervise transitions to new software releases that may offer both new features and incompatibilities. Microsoft Windows users may take a look at a tool called [...]
March 6th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft is preparing for a relatively modest Patch Tuesday with only three security bulletins. Among the three there are only one rated “critical”, while the other two are “important”. The critical bulletin, as well as one of the bulletins classified as important, affects Microsoft Windows. The other bulletin affects Microsoft Office. “The upcoming Patch Tuesday [...]
Posted in Operating System, Software Security, Vulnerabilities Tags: Operating System, patches, Windows & Microsoft 11 Comments »
