Two Million for Wikimedia: Who Can Offer More?
Aug 27, 2009Describing itself as a philanthropic investment company, the Omydar Network has donated two million dollars to the Wikimedia Foundation.
more »OpenBSD Developers Work on AerieBSD
Aug 26, 2009A group of OpenBSD developers have joined in the AerieBSD project. A new distro is being prepared whose likeness to OpenBSD is unmistakable.
more »Fedora 12 in Alpha
Aug 26, 2009An Alpha version of the new Fedora, codenamed Constantine and scheduled for release in November, is now available for download.
more »Thursday is Feature-Freeze for Ubuntu 9.10
Aug 25, 2009Whoever wants their favorite features integrated into Karmic Koala will have to hurry. From Thursday, the impending Ubuntu will accept no more changes.
more »i4i: "OpenOffice Doesn't Infringe Our Patents"
Aug 21, 2009On August 11, a court in Texas banned the sale of Microsoft Word in the US due to a patent lawsuit, concerning XML features, brought by the Canadian company i4i.
more »KDE Default DeskTop for openSUSE
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more »Path Free for Python with Qt and AMD's OpenCL
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more »Weave Sync Performance Improvements
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