Debian Freeze for Squeeze Policy Reconsidered
Aug 02, 2009The Debian release team decided on July 29 to adopt a two-year development freeze cycle for its 6.0 "Squeeze" release. A day's worth of discussion to follow led the team to revise its plans again.
more »Free Software Projects An up-to-date overview of free software and its makers
Jul 31, 2009Why are there so few female programmers on the open source scene? A discussion in the Ruby community reveals some unpleasant answers. In other news, the Uget download manager celebrates a comeback.
more »Stable Clutter: GUI Library Achieves Version 1.0.0
Jul 31, 2009The Clutter project has made available version 1.0.0 of its user interface library. Clutter is not only the basis for the Moblin GUI, but the foundation for the upcoming GNOME 3.0 interface.
more »CentOS Admin Mysteriously Missing
Jul 30, 2009An open letter on the CentOS distribution website gives the impression that their main administrator has mysteriously disappeared.
more »GNU Emacs 23.1 Provides Anti-Aliasing
Jul 30, 2009Emacs, the extensible editor of the GNU project, is available in version 23.1. The release adds countless modernizations to the traditional program, such as font anti-alising and support for D-Bus and zeroconf.
more »Bugzilla 3.4 Released
Jul 29, 2009Mozilla's bug tracker Bugzilla is now available in version 3.4. and developers have worked hard on the major release to make life for the user a lot easier.
more »Credit Card from Linux Foundation to Benefit Community Events
Jul 29, 2009Emblazoned with the Linux mascot, a new Tux credit card from the non-profit Linux Foundation will be issued in co-operation with Visa and the US bank UMB.
more »Debian Announces 2 Year Release Cycle
Jul 29, 2009At this weeks Debconf in Spain the Debian Project announced a development freeze in December of every odd year with future releases scheduled for the first half of each even year.
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