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Beginning of March: Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:09:44 GMT

Ubuntu's Community Manager, Jono Bacon, has announced the Opportunistic Developer Week, to take place from March 1 to 6, 2010. The distance learning course will deal with the speedy creation of applications on the Linux desktop.

FOSDEM 2010: Marketplace for Distros

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:27:45 GMT

At FOSDEM 2010 in Brussels, software that was declared dead was resurrected (Hurd), known combatants sat down at the same table (openSUSE, Fedora and Debian) and almost forgotten entities raised their hands again (openSUSE for PowerPC).

Moving to Google Chrome

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:33:21 GMT

After having used development builds of Google Chrome for quite some time, I decided to take the next logical step and promote Chrome to my default browser.

Double-sided DVD!

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:54:29 GMT

Matt Asay Joins Canonical as COO

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:41:01 GMT

Following the withdrawal of Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth from the day to day running of the company, and his replacement by Jane Silber, Matt Asay has now moved into the free post of chief operating officer.

FOSDEM 2010: OpenIntents Addresses Dependency Management

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:37:56 GMT

Under the motto "Reuse components, don't reinvent the wheel," Friedger Mueffke, founder of OpenIntents, described his project and its next steps. Using so-called intents, Android apps can provide services to other apps.

EBox Server in Version 1.4

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:30:51 GMT

Spanish company eBox Technologies has released version 1.4 of its Linux server for small to medium sized enterprises.

FOSDEM 2010: Andrew Tanenbaum Sets Reliability Before Performance

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:27:48 GMT

Computer science veteran Andrew Tanenbaum presented the third version of his Minix operating system at the FOSDEM 2010 conference on February 6-7 in Brussels, Belgium.

March 24th: Ada Lovelace Day

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:42:16 GMT

Pledge to blog in celebration of Ada Lovelace Day

Linux Professional Institute and Training Materials

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:03:31 GMT

Linux Professional Institute and creation of training materials

Mollify 1.5: Web File Manager Reworked

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:03:53 GMT

Mollify is a PHP application for managing and downloading files from a web server. The new version 1.5 comes with numerous changes.

Rsync Interface for Maemo

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:56:52 GMT

Grsync, a graphical user interface for the rsync synchronization tool, is now available in version 1.0.0 for Maemo.

Managing Finances with Tonido Money

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:47:46 GMT

There are a few desktop applications out there that can help you to keep track of your personal finances, but if you are a freelancer or a small business owner, you might need something more powerful like Tonido Money.

Berkeley DB for C# and STL

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:44:03 GMT

The embeddable database Berkeley DB is available in version 4.8.26 with new APIs.

Symbian Sourcecode Available

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:41:25 GMT

The Symbian Foundation has released its mobile platform of the same name as free software.

Fellow travelers: The FOSS media and FOSS developers

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:36:41 GMT

If FOSS journalists and FOSS developers sometimes fight, that's because their interests are not identical.

Six Figure Award for Favorite Palm Apps

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:58:37 GMT

Palm hits the gas pedal: with a six-figure monetary award for the most downloaded webOS applications the California company wants to heat up the app development market.

LinuxCon 2010 Call for Papers Now Open

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:11:38 GMT

Don't know what to write about? Maybe watching LinuxCon 2009 video archives will get you over that writer's block.

Google Tablet with Chromium OS?

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:44:36 GMT

Apple's iPad has evidently inspired the free Chromium OS and Google into developing a hardware implementation in tablet form.

Resurrected: KBluetooth

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:28:47 GMT

KDE developer Alex Fiestas has taken on the orphaned KDE Bluetooth. The first release under his supervision, Kbluetooth 0.4, has now been released.

Microsoft Recruiting for .NET Micro Community

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:21:24 GMT

A dedicated community site for productive work within .NET embedded applications has been planned since the end of January. The associated SDK family is partly covered by Apache licensing.

Alfresco Grows Distribution via LGPL

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:59:00 GMT

John Newton, founder and CTO of the Alfresco Software content management system (CMS) company, has announced a licensing change from GPL to LGPL for the software. The change should go into effect the next Alfresco community version.

Netbook Distro Leeenux Linux 2.0 with lots of Applications

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:24:48 GMT

Leeenux Linux is a netbook distribution for the EeePC 701G, and is now available as version 2.0, complete with many new applications.

IFOSSLR Open Source Law Review in Second Issue

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:01:19 GMT

The open source legal profession has established the International Free and Open Source Software Law Review (IFOSSLR) to discuss topics including copyrights, licensing, software patents, open standards, case law and statutes in the open source arena. The IFOSSLR now appears in its second issue.

Akademy 2010: Call for Papers

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:39:32 GMT

The call for papers has begun for the annual developers conference, Akademy.

Zarafa Releases Community Version 6.40 RC1

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:14:18 GMT

The Dutch-German groupware producer Zarafa has just made the first version of its collaboration platform 6.40 ready for testing.

Ubuntu Women: How I Discovered Ubuntu Contest

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:06:45 GMT

"How I Discovered Ubuntu" contest winner to be announced March 8th, International Women's Day

Video Interview with Mozilla Foundation's Mitchell Baker

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:44:34 GMT

Mathias Huber interviews Mitchell Baker

Google ACM MM 2010 Conference Grant Announced

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:35:42 GMT

Google your way to Italy

Final Maintenance for Hardy Heron: Ubuntu Update 8.04 LTS

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:59:22 GMT

Canonical has released the fourth and last maintenance update for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron).