Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 3: New Notifications and Ext4

Jan 20, 2009

Canonical has released its third alpha version of Ubuntu 9.04. It brings a few new features to test, including notification settings in the user interface and the much publicized ext4 filesystem support.

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Rush Hour: Newest GNU Restricted User Shell

Jan 20, 2009

The latest stable release of the GNU Restricted User Shell (Rush), version 1.5, includes new configuration offerings and a notification feature.

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Sun Open Sources Web Server

Jan 20, 2009

Core components of the Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 are now available as open source. Re-named Open Web Server 1.0, Sun Microsystems has released the server under the BSD license.

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Canonical's Launchpad to be Open-Sourced

Jan 19, 2009

Canonical, the company behind the Linux distro Ubuntu, will open-source the software development platform Launchpad.

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Google Sets Jaiku Free

Jan 16, 2009

Google will close the microblog project Jaiku and publish the source code under an Apache license.

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OpenOffice Lives, More Involvement Needed

Jan 15, 2009

Free office solution OpenOffice.org is still in the best of shape, based on reactions from project members to Novell developer Michael Meeks's recent pessimistic view. The Linux Foundation is one of many who are concerned. All want one thing: more.

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New address for Fedora mailing lists

Jan 15, 2009

Fedora is to change the address of its mailing lists from fedora-*redhat.com to lists-*fedoraproject.org.

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Ubuntu 9.04 Supports Ext4

Jan 13, 2009

Since its addition to Kernel 2.6.28, the ext4 filesystem can be manually installed in the upcoming Ubuntu release.

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