Red Hat Seeks Defense Against Patent Lawsuit
Feb 19, 2009In October 2007 IP Innovation filed a lawsuit against Novell and Red Hat for violation of certain virtual desktop patents. Red Hat is now asking the community for help to invalidate it.
more »Arch Linux: Linux for Advanced Users
Feb 18, 2009Aimed at experienced users, the new version 2009.02 of Arch Linux comes with the new Ext4 data system and a re-worked installer.
more »Linux Clients for Brazil's Schools
Feb 18, 2009Brazil's municipal schools should be getting more than 350,000 power-saving thin clients for their students.
more »FBReaderJ 0.3.0: Free E-Book Reader for Android
Feb 18, 2009FBReaderJ, a GPL program for e-book display on the Android mobile platform, is now available in version 0.3.0.
more »Adobe and Nokia Provide $10 Million Fund for Mobile Flash Development
Feb 17, 2009Under the auspices of the Open Screen Project, mobile vendor Nokia and software maker Adobe are providing a $10 million fund to help developers create mobile Flash applications. The underlying software will become free at least to some extent, according to Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch.
more »Novell openSUSE: Development Ebbing?
Feb 16, 2009Last week Novell announced a layoff of almost 100 employees "in response to the global economic downturn," without any further details. New information now brings into question the software house's commitment to openSUSE.
more »Debian 5.0: Way to Go, Lenny!
Feb 16, 2009The deal is closed: Debian 5.0, code-named Lenny, is officially available.
more »New Wine with More Functions
Feb 16, 2009A new version of Wine, the program loader that lets Windows run on Linux, has been released.
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