Patent Dispute Forces Openmoko Housecleaning
Nov 18, 2008The Openmoko project, developers of an open source mobile phone platform, has recently pulled its download site offline due to a patent dispute.
more »Debian: 14 Seconds to Boot
Nov 14, 2008An article from the Debian-Administration.org community describes how to boot up Debian much faster on an Asus Eee 901. Its author, Phil Endecott, claims to do it within 14 seconds using his method.
more »Debian Lenny on Android Phones
Nov 12, 2008Thanks to a hack a few days ago, BusyBox has been running on the T-Mobile G1 mobile phones with Google's Android platform. Now Jay Freeman, alias saurik, goes a step further: in his blog he describes how to install Debian Lenny by way of root access on the device.
more »Fixstars Adopts Yellow Dog Linux
Nov 12, 2008Japanese company Fixstars Corporation, specializing in Cell/B.E. technology, has acquired Terra Software Solutions to add Yellow Dog Linux to its portfolio.
more »VMware Plans Virtualization for Mobile Phones
Nov 11, 2008The virtualization specialist adopted the know-how for the product through its acquisition of Trango Virtual Processors
more »Acrobatic Tumble: Serious Flaws in Adobe Reader 8.1.2
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more »Should YaST Become Independent?
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more »Sun and IBM Initiate OpenDocument Project
Nov 06, 2008Sun Microsystems and IBM have kicked off an open source community project dealing with conversion of documents into OpenDocument Format (ODF).
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