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more »Linux Clients for Brazil's Schools
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more »FBReaderJ 0.3.0: Free E-Book Reader for Android
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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
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more »NVIDIA Computer-on-a-Chip Runs Android
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