OpenSUSE Conf 2009: OpenSUSE 11.2 with Microblogging, But Not WebYaST
Sep 18, 2009On the outskirts of the OpenSUSE Conference, core developers revealed details on the new openSUSE version 11.2. Although it will have Kernel 2.6.31, browser users will have to wait a bit longer for YaST.
more »GPLv2 Less Popular
Sep 18, 2009Latest statistics from Black Duck Software show version 2 of the General Public License (GPLv2) sliding in popularity. Just under half of all the open source projects contained in the September 2009 statistics used the GPLv2.
more »Gnome Zeitgeist with New User Interface
Sep 17, 2009The tracker daemon Gnome Activity Journal called Zeitgeist has a new user interface.
more »Enharmonic Zen: Former Zenwalkers Do Salix OS Fork
Sep 16, 2009The end of May the Zenwalk team came to some disagreements with its project lead Jean-Philippe Guillemin and some other team members. The result is a new distro called Salix OS.
more »GNOME Foundation's First Quarterly Report
Sep 16, 2009The GNOME Foundation wants to issue regular quarterly reports to document the work on the free desktop. A Q2 2009 report is a good start.
more »Debmirror 2.2 Faster and Multi-Language
Sep 14, 2009Debian developer Frans Pop has updated debmirror, a tool that creates local copies of Debian repositories. The version number thereby jumped from 1.0 to 2.2 in just three weeks.
more »Absolute Linux 13.0. with IceWM and PCMan
Sep 14, 2009Paul Sherman has released version 13.0 of his Slackware-based distribution, pulling it level with Slack in the version stakes and relying on the slimline IceWM as window manager.
more »Nuremberg: openSUSE Server Down over Weekend
Sep 10, 2009A planned maintenance for the transformers for the openSUSE servers at the Nuremberg office will bring down the critical services for a few days over the 9/11 weekend.
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