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Aug 23, 2012- OSI accepting individual memberships.
- OpenGL 4.3 and ES 3.0.
- License Protection
- Raspberry Pi ramps up production.
- FSFE protects licences when bankruptcy strikes.
- Gaming passwords secured with My1login.
- Web Apps new to Ubuntu.
- LPI Forum
- RSA Anti Rogue App.
- US Cell Phone Right-to-Know Act.
Doghouse: Tiny Computers Doghouse – Tiny Computers
Aug 23, 2012A choice of ultrasmall boards lets future developers learn how to create and program computers.
more »Kernel News Benchmarking Futexes
Aug 23, 2012Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.
more »Android Extends Lead in Smartphone OS Market
Aug 17, 2012Android's market share climbs to 64.1%– up 20.7 percentage points from 2011.
more »FSFE Seeks to Protect Licenses from Bankruptcy
Aug 02, 2012Free Software licenses could face legal challenges in some European jurisdictions.
more »GIMP 2.8 An overview of the new features in GIMP 2.8
Jul 24, 2012Although the developers of GIMP version 2.8 have not achieved all their goals, they’ve awakened great expectations with some impressive new features.
more »Linux News
Jul 24, 2012- Red Hat Addresses Secure Boot
- FSF Addresses Secure Boot
- Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
Welcome Editorial
Jul 24, 2012Since they print my picture with this column, I have little hope of concealing my age, so I’ll just come out and say that I remember Ronald Reagan’s first year in office in 1981 – in fact, I was already a young adult at that time and was living in Reagan’s home state of California, working my first professional job after college. Reagan became known as “the great communicator” for the hypnotic optimism with which he could render his own point of view. In a speech somewhere around that time, the new president made a comment that was something like “We have come a long way since before we knew we had a problem with racism.”
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