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Comments: 104 +-   The Final Release of Apache HTTP Server 1.3 on Wednesday February 03, @04:30PM

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 03, @04:30PM
from the people-of-earth-you're-on-your-own dept.
software
Kyle Hamilton writes "The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the release of version 1.3.42 of the Apache HTTP Server ('Apache'). This release is intended as the final release of version 1.3 of the Apache HTTP Server, which has reached end of life status There will be no more full releases of Apache HTTP Server 1.3. However, critical security updates may be made available."
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Comments: 303 +-   Facebook's HipHop Also a PHP Webserver on Tuesday February 02, @07:09PM

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 02, @07:09PM
from the carbon-footprint-reducer dept.
php
darthcamaro writes "As expected, Facebook today announced a new runtime for PHP, called HipHop. What wasn't expected were a few key revelations disclosed today by Facebook developer David Recordan. As it turns out, Facebook has been running HipHop for months and it now powers 90 percent of their servers — it's not a skunkworks project; it's a Live production technology. It's also not just a runtime, it's also a new webserver. 'In general, Apache is a great Web server, but when we were looking at how we get the next half percent or percent of performance, we didn't need all the features that Apache offers," Recordon said. He added, however, that he hopes an open source project will one day emerge around making HipHop work with Apache Web servers.'"
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Comments: 25 +-   ModSecurity 2.5 on Wednesday January 13, @01:44PM

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 13, @01:44PM
from the read-all-about-it dept.
bookreview
Martijn de Boer writes "For a long time now Apache's webserver software has been serving up the Web. Because Internet usage is still growing every day, securing your growing number of servers has become very important. ModSecurity 2.5 has been written to illustrate and educate you the ease of use and inner workings of the ModSecurity module for the most widespread webserver." Read below for the rest of Martijn's review.
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Comments: 77 +-   Apache May Stop 1.3, 2.0 Series Releases on Tuesday January 12, @10:16AM

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 12, @10:16AM
from the out-with-the-old dept.
software
Dan Jones writes "The Apache Software Foundation may stop releasing new versions of the older 1.3 and 2.0 series of its flagship Web server product with most development now focused on the 2.2 series. Nothing is final yet, but messages to the Apache httpd developer mailing list recommend the formal deprecation of the 1.3.x branch, with most citing a lack of development activity. The Apache HTTP server project is one of the most successful and popular open source projects and has become an integral part of the technology stack for thousands of Web and SaaS applications. The first generation of Apache was released in 1995, and the 2.0 series began in 2002. Apache httpd 2.2 began in 2005, with the latest release (October 2009) being 2.2.14. However, the most recent releases of the 1.3 and 2.0 series servers were back in January 2008. With the combined total of active 1.3 and 2.0 series Apache Web servers well into the millions, any decision to end-of-life either product will be watched closely."
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Comments: 279 +-   Offset Bad Code, With Bad Code Offsets on Thursday December 03, @02:47PM

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 03, @02:47PM
from the don't-blame-me-I-voted-foss dept.
humor
An anonymous reader writes "Two weeks ago, The Daily WTF's Alex Papadimoulis announced Bad Code Offsets, a join venture between many big names in the software development community (including StackOverflow's Jeff Atwood and Jon Skeet and SourceGear's Eric Sink). The premise is that you can offset bad code by purchasing Bad Code Offsets (much in the same way a carbon-footprint is offset). The profits are donated to Free Software projects which work to eliminate bad code, such as the Apache Foundation and FreeBSD. The first cheques were sent out earlier today." Hopefully, they work better than carbon offsets, actually.
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Comments: 320 +-   Microsoft Open Sources .NET Micro Framework on Monday November 16, @05:42PM

Posted by timothy on Monday November 16, @05:42PM
from the what's-your-angle-college-boy dept.
programming
An anonymous reader writes "Back in July, Microsoft announced it was making .NET available under its Community Promise, which in theory allowed free software developers to use the technology without fear of patent lawsuits. Not surprisingly, many free software geeks were unconvinced by the promise (after all, what's a promise compared to an actual open licence?), but now Microsoft has taken things to the next level by releasing the .NET Micro Framework under the Apache 2.0 licence. Yes, you read that correctly: a sizeable chunk of .NET is about to go open source."
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Comments: 140 +-   XML Library Flaw — Sun, Apache, GNOME Affected on Wednesday August 05 2009, @11:27AM

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday August 05 2009, @11:27AM
from the finding-fast-fixes-for-flaws dept.
security
bednarz writes with this excerpt from Network World: "Vulnerabilities discovered in XML libraries from Sun, the Apache Software Foundation, the Python Software Foundation and the GNOME Project could result in successful denial-of-service attacks on applications built with them, according to Codenomicon. The security vendor found flaws in XML parsers that made it fairly easy to cause a DoS attack, corruption of data, and delivery of a malicious payload using XML-based content. Codenomicon has shared its findings with industry and the open source groups, and a number of recommendations and patches for the XML-related vulnerabilities are expected to be made available Wednesday. In addition, a general security advisory is expected to be published by the Computer Emergency Response Team in Finland (CERT-FI)."
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Comments: 227 +-   Opera Unite Web Server Benchmarked on Thursday June 18 2009, @09:40PM

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 18 2009, @09:40PM
from the not-bad-for-a-bonus-feature dept.
software
worb writes "Opera Unite comes with a web server which is supposedly going to 'redefine the web.' But how well does it actually perform? Is it a threat to other server solutions? Someone put it to the test, and published the results. While nginx, one of the fastest web servers available, is 5 times faster, a PHP+Apache+MySQL server is only 2 times as fast. A compiled C++ server, the MadFish WebToolkit, is 6 times faster. He concludes that Opera Unite's server is impressive, and that the others come nowhere close to the ease of use."
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Comments: 49 +-   Yahoo Releases Open Source Hadoop Distribution on Wednesday June 10 2009, @04:49PM

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 10 2009, @04:49PM
from the spread-it-out-in-little-chunks dept.
programming
ruphus13 writes "Yahoo has been a vociferous Apache Hadoop user and supporter for several years now, and uses it extensively within its Search technologies. Hadoop has been gaining popularity in the Cloud Computing space, with companies like the NYTimes converting 4TB and 11 million articles to PDFs in under 24 hours using Hadoop and EC2 in late 2007. Hadoop has been made available in Amazon's cloud and Yahoo has now released its own Hadoop version. From the article: 'At today's Hadoop Summit in Silicon Valley, Yahoo! announced the availability of the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop, a source-only version of Apache Hadoop that Yahoo! uses within its own search engine. [Hadoop] is an open source software framework that helps process very large data sets, and is widely used in large-scale data mining applications as well as in search tools at sites like Facebook and many others. For developers and users interested in Hadoop, it's worth noting that the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop has been widely tested and developed at Yahoo! for years now.'"
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Comments: 231 +-   The Chinese (Web Servers) Are Coming on Tuesday February 24 2009, @12:09PM

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 24 2009, @12:09PM
from the maoism-taoism-i-ching-and-chess dept.
internet
Glyn Moody writes "The February 2009 Netcraft survey is not the usual 'Apache continues to trounce Microsoft IIS' story: there's a new entrant — from China. 'This majority of this month's growth is down to the appearance of 20 million Chinese sites served by QZHTTP. This web server is used by QQ to serve millions of Qzone sites beneath the qq.com domain.' What exactly is this QZHTTP, and what does it all mean for the world of Web servers?"
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