British Local Authorities Hesitant on Open Source
Aug 11, 2009A new survey by the Public Sector Forums in the U.K. on public financing of IT costs was based on a sample of 168 local authorities.
more »VMware Acquires SpringSource
Aug 11, 2009Virtualization provider VMware has purchased open source firm SpringSource for $420 million.
more »Apache 2.2.13 with Overflow Protection
Aug 11, 2009With Apache 2.2.13, developers have closed security holes in the popular webserver.
more »Microsoft Contract for Samba Developer
Aug 10, 2009Samba Project developer Chris Hertel has clinched a contract with Microsoft to write protocol documentation.
more »BlazeBlogger 0.9.0: Command Line CMS
Aug 03, 2009BlazeBlogger is a command line tool that allows creating blogs and websites without server-side software. It is now available in version 0.9.0.
more »10th Annual Sys Admin Day - Admins, We Thank You!
Jul 31, 2009For the 10th time, this day is dedicated to those unsung heroes working in the background: System Administrators.
more »GNU Emacs 23.1 Provides Anti-Aliasing
Jul 30, 2009Emacs, the extensible editor of the GNU project, is available in version 23.1. The release adds countless modernizations to the traditional program, such as font anti-alising and support for D-Bus and zeroconf.
more »Spring Quarter Results: Sun Vague, Intel Pale
Jul 15, 2009Sun and Intel have presented their quarterly figures for the second three-month period of 2009.
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Issue 36: Getting Started with Linux – /Special Editions
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The New Kali Linux Is Here
2019.2 supports more Android devices.
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exFAT Is Coming to Linux
Microsoft has contributed exFAT patents to OIN and also published specifications.
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Knoppix 8.6 Released
The latest version of the classic Live Linux comes with KDE Plasma 5.
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openSUSE Board Gets a New Chairman
Richard Brown is replaced by Gerald Pfeifer.
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Linux Mint 19.2 “Tina” Released
The latest version of Linux Mint brings many performance improvements.
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Gnome and KDE Coming Together
The two major Linux projects will work together to create a compatible ecosystem.
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Fedora CoreOS Preview Released
The new distribution from Red Hat is targeted at containerized workloads.
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SUSE Appoints New CEO
Melissa Di Donato replaces Nils Brauckmann, who will retire and leave SUSE.
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Debian Buster Arrives
The latest release of Debian comes with tightened security.
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IBM Acquires Red Hat
Red Hat becomes an independent entity within IBM.