OLPC Cuts Staff by 50 Percent
Jan 08, 2009Today the One Laptop per Child Project announced that they will be reducing their team by about 50 percent and the remaining 32 team members will have salary reductions.
more »Easy Peasy 1.0 Released
Jan 07, 2009The Ubuntu Eee Linux variant optimized for netbooks is now known as Easy Peasy. Version 1.0 is on the same level as Ubuntu 8.10.
more »Votes Are in: All Clear for Debian Lenny
Jan 07, 2009Debian developers have determined the outcome: proprietary components are acceptable, paving the way for Lenny, the next free distro of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.
more »Retro 10.0 Brings Forth on Many OSs and Browsers
Jan 06, 2009Retro, the free implementation of a minimalist dialect of Forth, is now available in version 10.0.
more »FreeBSD Version 7.1 Available for Download
Jan 06, 2009The FreeBSD Project has released version 7.1 of the BSD Unix-based operating system. The release comes without any spectacular changes.
more »Wikipedia Raises 6.2 Million Dollars
Jan 05, 2009Thanks to contributions of $6.2 million, the financial future of the free encyclopedia Wikipedia in 2009 is secured.
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Compiz Considered in Peril
Jan 02, 2009The Compiz project, which makes a free compositing window manager, suffers from a lack of participants, direction and leadership, at least according to developer Kristian Lyngstol.
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