Straggler: Debian Decides to Replace Sysvinit with Upstart
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more »RRZR Publishes Icons under CC-BY-SA
Sep 07, 2009The regional data processing center in Germany's Erlangen (RRZR) has released a collection of symbols correlating to diverse IT themes under the Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA.
more »Blue or Green? Vote for Choqok's New Icon Color
Sep 04, 2009The new KDE star in Twitter heaven is Choqok. In version 0.6.6 the main developer has changed the color of its icon from blue to green.
more »Fresh Roadmap for Firefox
Sep 03, 2009The Mozilla Project has updated its roadmap for the coming versions of Firefox. The next big release, Firefox 4.0 with Geko1.9.4 underneath, is scheduled for the end of 2010.
more »Trojitá: New Qt-Based IMAP Client
Sep 03, 2009KDE developer Jan Kundrat presents a new IMAP mail client named Trojitá. The Qt4 program developed for his bachelor thesis should be ready for prime time in the next months.
more »First Test Images of LXDE Lubuntu Available
Sep 03, 2009The LXDE team is working on a lite variant of Ubuntu that will run on PCs with less than 265 MB. First images are now ready to test.
more »Windows Kernel: Unified Kernel Version 0.2.4.1
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more »Free Software Projects An up-to-date overview of free software and its makers
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