Open Source Helps Earthquake Victims in Haiti
Jan 18, 2010The OpenRouteService team at the University of Heidelberg has responded to the catastrophic situation of victims and destroyed infrastructure following the earthquake in Haiti by providing recovery forces with a new version of its live routing service.
more »Cold War at the Eighth KDE PIM Gathering
Jan 15, 2010The eighth annual KDE PIM developer meeting in Osnabrück, Germany started out with an extended snowball fight among the Scottish, German and Dutch contingencies. That actual work was being done was evidenced by enhancements to Akonadi, KDE 4.4 and 4.5, and planned further development of the Kontact groupware client.
more »Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 2 Removes HAL
Jan 15, 2010The development of Ubuntu 10.04 is taking another turn. Lucid Lynx now has a second alpha version that gets rid of HAL.
more »Amarok 2.2.2 with New Features
Jan 12, 2010The Amarok project has made version 2.2.2 of its KDE music player available for download. The new version includes a couple of new features next to many detail changes.
more »Release Candidate Pardus 2009.1
Jan 12, 2010The Pardus team has published the first release candidate of its Linux distribution with the slightly confusing version number 2009.1.
more »Big Shot: OpenShot Video Editor Version 1.0 Released
Jan 12, 2010Video clip editors have been in short supply under Linux. Jonathan Thomas is now trying to fill that gap with the first stable version of the OpenShot Video Editor.
more »Ttylinux 9.1 Supports USB HID
Jan 11, 2010The very frugal ttylinux distro is available in version 9.1.
more »Splashtop 2.0 Does UMTS and Touchscreen
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