Portugal Approves Open Standards Adoption Proposal
Dec 13, 2010"Portuguese Association of Open Source Software Enterprises, supports this initiative unequivocally." - ESOP Press Release
more »Ubuntu Unity Demo
Dec 10, 2010Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager, recorded a short demonstration of the current state of Unity.
more »Wordpress 3.0.3 Released
Dec 09, 2010This release is a security update to earlier versions of Wordpress.
more »Brazilian Ministry of Education Plans Mandriva Deployment
Dec 09, 2010The Brazilian government education authority is set to deploy Intel-powered classmate PCs running Mandriva.
more »Certifications to Linux Standard Base 4.0 and Public Beta 4.1 Announced
Dec 08, 2010Today the Linux Foundation announced that all major Linux distributions are certified to Linux Standard Base (LSB) 4.0 and that LSB 4.1 beta is now available to the public.
more »KOffice Changes Name: Calligra Suite Project Announced
Dec 07, 2010KDE continues KOffice development through the new Calligra Suite project.
more »Call for Papers: CeBIT 2011-Open Source Forum
Dec 01, 2010The Open Source Forum at CeBIT 2011 is seeking speakers. Potential speakers have until January 9, 2011 to submit their topic papers for consideration.
more »Debian 6.0 “Squeeze”: Call for Testing
Nov 19, 2010The Debian Project asks users to help test “Squeeze” in this final development phase prior to the release.
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