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Tellu 3.0.0: Inventory Management and Scripting

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:25:24 GMT

Inventory management software Tellu has been completely reworked and is now available in version 3.0.0.

Linux Foundation Kicks Off "The Linux Super Bowl Ad" Contest

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:46:56 GMT

Linus Torvalds's foundation is doing a sequel this year of its creative community ad campaign for Linux with a second video contest. The winner will receive a laptop loaded with Linux and a trip to LinuxCon in Boston in August.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.