Oracle Supports MySQL and OpenOffice
Jan 28, 2010Following the European Commission's OK to Oracle's takeover of Sun Microsystems, Oracle has now released a statement from their top management about MySQL and Solaris.
more »Freoffice: Free Office Viewer for N900
Jan 22, 2010Nokia has released an alpha version of a new office viewer for the N900 smartphone. The software named Freoffice, installable under Maemo, is based on KOffice project code.
more »Skype Beta: Phoning and Sharing Desktops
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more »Where Shall OOoCon 2011 Meet?
Jan 20, 2010The annual OpenOffice conference takes place this year the end of September in Budapest. The project is also looking for suggestions for 2011.
more »Microsoft Word Ban Renewed from Jan 11, 2010
Dec 23, 2009The US-wide sales ban of Microsoft Word spoken by a Texan court in August has been upheld.
more »International Open Source News
Dec 21, 2009News from around the globe.
more »Portable and Mobile Techniques for portable computers and mobile devices
Nov 30, 2009The arrival of Linux on portable and mobile devices provides so many interesting opportunities for customization. This month we look at Linux in portable and mobile environments.
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Keep Android Open
Google has announced that, soon, anyone looking to develop Android apps will have to first register centrally with Google.
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Kernel 7.0 Now in Testing
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Introducing matrixOS, an Immutable Gentoo-Based Linux Distro
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Chaos Comes to KDE in KaOS
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New Linux Botnet Discovered
The SSHStalker botnet uses IRC C2 to control systems via legacy Linux kernel exploits.
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The Next Linux Kernel Turns 7.0
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Linux From Scratch Drops SysVinit Support
LFS will no longer support SysVinit.
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LibreOffice 26.2 Now Available
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