Adobe and Nokia Provide $10 Million Fund for Mobile Flash Development
Feb 17, 2009Under the auspices of the Open Screen Project, mobile vendor Nokia and software maker Adobe are providing a $10 million fund to help developers create mobile Flash applications. The underlying software will become free at least to some extent, according to Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch.
more »Novell openSUSE: Development Ebbing?
Feb 16, 2009Last week Novell announced a layoff of almost 100 employees "in response to the global economic downturn," without any further details. New information now brings into question the software house's commitment to openSUSE.
more »Debian 5.0: Way to Go, Lenny!
Feb 16, 2009The deal is closed: Debian 5.0, code-named Lenny, is officially available.
more »New Wine with More Functions
Feb 16, 2009A new version of Wine, the program loader that lets Windows run on Linux, has been released.
more »NVIDIA Computer-on-a-Chip Runs Android
Feb 16, 2009Graphics specialist NVIDIA has unleashed the Android mobile platform on its Tegra computer-on-a-chip series.
more »FOSDEM Video: Micro Distro Summit
Feb 14, 2009
Nils Magnus of Linux Magazine Online pulled together the heads of three Linux distros for an interview and put them in a video: openSUSE's Joe Brockmeier, Debian's Steve McIntyre and Red Hat's Max Spevack.
more »Bespin 0.1: Mozilla's Collaborative Web Code Editor
Feb 13, 2009Firefox provider Mozilla has released a new Web development tool called Bespin. The project should not only make programming Web applications easier, but make it a collaborative effort worldwide.
more »FOSDEM Video: Google Summer of Code - Some Insights
Feb 13, 2009Linux Magazine Online has been talking to Leslie Hawthorn, one of the project managers for Google's hacker scholarship.
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