Gnome 2.22 Gnome 2.22 overview
May 23, 2008The new Gnome appeared in March and includes improvements for both users and developers. We'll tell you about network-transparent filesystem access, improved usability, and new programs in the latest Gnome.
more »GCC 4.3 GNU Compiler Collection 4.3
May 22, 2008The latest GCC 4.3 is set to take the programming world by storm with new optimizations, experimental support for the next-generation C++ 200x standard, an optional parallelized C++ STL, and a new Java compiler courtesy of the Eclipse project.
more »Leaner: RPath Linux 2
May 16, 2008RPath has released version 2 of its Linux distribution which is mainly designed for producing customized software appliances.
more »Books
Apr 30, 2008Adobe AIR for Linux
Apr 01, 2008Software manufacturer Adobe has just released an initial alpha version for Linux of its developer environment AIR for Web technology .
more »Mercurial: Version 1.0 with Various Improvements
Mar 25, 2008Version 1.0 of Mercurial, a distributed version control system, has just been released.
more »Stallman Quits Emacs Maintainer Job
Feb 26, 2008After 32 years as the maintainer of the Emacs editor, Richard M. Stallman, has assigned the task to two younger developers.
more »AMD Goes Open Source with APL
Feb 21, 2008AMD has released its AMD Performance Library (APL) under the Apache License 2.0 as the Open Source Framewave project.
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Issue 191/2016
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News
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Nextcloud Announces Raspberry Pi-Powered Home Cloud Box
Innovative system adds a hard drive and Ubuntu Core to the RPi for an IoT hub.
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Linus Torvalds Confirms the Date of the First Linux Release
Linux is two weeks younger than we thought!
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End of OpenOffice?
The Apache Software Foundation considers retiring OpenOffice
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Adobe Gives New Life to NPAPI Plugin for Linux
Adobe won’t kill the plugin in 2017
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LinuxCon North America Convenes in Toronto, Canada
Linux Foundation's big event celebrates the 25th anniversary of Linux
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Linux Turns 25
Linux has evolved from “won’t be a professional” project to one of the most professional software projects in the history of computers.
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Mirantis Joins Hands with SUSE To Offer RHEL Support; Red Hat Not Happy
Competitors get in the game with RHEL without Red Hat
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Linux on Windows 10 Poses a Security Risk
Security researchers have already notified Microsoft; some fixes are available
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Mirantis to Refactor OpenStack Fuel for Kubernetes
The company is collaborating with Google and Intel to use Kubernetes as an engine for Fuel
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Canonical Joins Document Foundation Advisory Board
The upcoming release of LibreOffice will be available as a snap package