Code Statistics: KDE Costs 175 Million Dollars
Oct 12, 2009The official KDE Project currently consists of 4.2 million lines of code. Cornelius Schumacher has applied the lines to individual projects and published the stats.
more »OpenDesktop Community Choose Winners of Desktop Contest
Oct 12, 2009About-information from developer profiles, desktop searches in online forums, an interface library and update notification of web page content bring the concept of a social desktop a step closer to reality.
more »Opensuse 11.2 Last Beta
Oct 02, 2009The now released test version of openSUSE 11.2 is to be the last beta. The first release candidate will appear mid-October.
more »Ubuntu Karmic Koala Enters Beta Test
Oct 02, 2009Like openSUSE, the Ubuntu project has released its first beta version of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala). The final version should appear October 29.
more »Tenth Anniversary Test: Live CD for Gentoo Linux 10.0
Sep 28, 2009The Gentoo project is celebrating its tenth anniversary, which inspired the Gentoo-Ten team to produce a special DVD that is now available in a test version.
more »Moblin Brings 2.0 and More
Sep 28, 2009Moblin 2.0 is officially ready for download and provides new services for mobile devices with Moblin Garage and Application Installer.
more »GNOME 2.28 Switches to WebKit
Sep 25, 2009GNOME 2.28 provides a few new features and improvements to well-known functions and components. So the GNOME Epiphany browser now uses the sleak WebKit that makes apps such as Google Chrome work faster.
more »Moblin Pre-installed on Dell Netbooks
Sep 24, 2009The first netbooks with Moblin pre-installed come from Dell. The first Mini 10v system is already available and image files ready for download.
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Intel Unveils Compute Stick
Four-inch-long computer on a stick lets you boot a full Linux system from any HDMI display device.
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Obama Proposes Personal Data Notification Law
New statute would require companies to report break-ins to consumers.
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TGXf Project Warns of File Transfer through Screen Pixels
Weird data transfer technique avoids all standard security measures.
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Industry Giants Announce a Fix for the Password Mess
FIDO alliance declares the beginning of the end for old-style login authentication.
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Poll: Vote for the Best Open Source Software for Photographers
The Linux New Media Awards have honored the most significant products, projects, people, and organizations for open source/Linux every year since 2000.
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Debian Gets Forked
Legendary Uber-distro splits over the systemd controversy.
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Linux Mint Project Releases Mint 17.1
New LTS version offers many refinements for the Cinnamon and Mate desktops and significant improvement under the hood.
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CeBIT Open Source Forum Call for Papers
One of CeBIT’s most successful forums returns in 2015.
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TOR Network Isn’t So Anonymous
A new study says it is possible to unmask 81% of TOR users.
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.NET Goes Open Source
Redmond joins the revolution by turning the .NET Core Runtime into a GitHub project.