Red Hat Makes SPICE Open Source

Dec 14, 2009

With the Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE), Red Hat has put one of the components of its desktop virtualization under GPL and BSD licensing.

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DRBD Merged into Mainline Kernel

Dec 10, 2009

The HA technology, Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD), is to be merged into the official Linux kernel, probably from version 2.6.33.

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Thunderbird 3 Provides Tabs, Better Search and Archiving

Dec 09, 2009

The carrier pigeon has arrived. After almost two and a half years in development, the new version 3 of the popular Thunderbird e-mail program is now available.

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OpenInkpot 0.2 Linux E-Book with New Face

Dec 09, 2009

The developers of OpenInkpot, a Linux distro for e-book readers with E Ink display, broadened the hardware support and enhanced the GUI and applications in version 0.2.

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Wind River Brings Own Android to Market

Dec 08, 2009

Embedded specialist Wind River strives to win mobile network users with hardware compliance and its own Android branding.

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FreeNAS: BSD Line and Linux Fork

Dec 08, 2009

The FreeNAS project had discussed whether the free storage systems should use BSD or Linux in the future. The result is that both variants will now be available.

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Kernel Plans for Ubuntu 10.04

Dec 07, 2009

On Thursday, the first alpha version of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is to be made available. The official release will be out in April 2010. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS should feature significantly more stability, being based on the just released Kernel 2.6.32 as a precedent to the Long Term version.

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Q4 Novell: Revenue Down, Loss Up

Dec 07, 2009

In its fourth fiscal quarter of 2009, Novell achieved a net revenue of $216 million, a figure down on the $245 million for the same period last year.

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