Ubuntu: Patent Policy and Private Support
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more »Predictable Cadence: Shuttleworth Chimes in on Debian Release Cycle
Aug 06, 2009Controversy over fixed release cycles for Debian is nothing new. Now Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth has entered into the fray.
more »OpenSUSE Users Wish Return of KDE
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more »Debian Squeeze: KFreeBSD, Dash and Automatic Debug Packages
Aug 04, 2009The Debian project is planning a whole series of enhancements for Debian 5.0 "Squeeze." A few results of the currently running Google Summer of Code are beginning to creep into it.
more »Lance Davis Returns- Reorganization at CentOS
Aug 03, 2009An appeal on Lance Davis, the temporarily absent main administrator and co-founder of CentOS, has obviously worked -- the highest hurdles in the further course of the project seem to be taken.
more »ReiserFS Without Big Kernel Lock
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more »Debian Freeze for Squeeze Policy Reconsidered
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more »Microsoft Hit by Open Source and Lawmakers
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