Project Start: Linux4Afrika Received by Tanzanian Government
Mar 04, 2008After turbulent days in Tanzania, long Linux training sessions at 40 ° C in the shade, the official project start, an unanticipated change in the government and a state visit by the US president, the people behind the Linux4afrika project were happy to welcome a visit by the new prime minister.
more »Stallman Quits Emacs Maintainer Job
Feb 26, 2008After 32 years as the maintainer of the Emacs editor, Richard M. Stallman, has assigned the task to two younger developers.
more »Graphics Chipsets: Intel Releases Documentation
Feb 04, 2008Chip giant Intel has released comprehensive documentation on its 965 Express and G35 Express chipsets.
more »FOSDEM 2008: Jam-packed program, free video stream
Feb 01, 2008The annual developers’ conference FOSDEM will take place in Brussels on February 23 and 24, 2008. As a teaser, organizers of the open-source event have now placed interviews with some of the speakers online.
more »Trolltech to release Qt under GPLv3
Jan 31, 2008As part of the KDE 4.0 release event, Trolltech CEO, Haavard Nord, announced that the Qt library would be released under GPLv3. Qt is an important framework for the KDE Linux desktop system.
more »KDE 4 unveiled to the public - 4.1 to appear in July 2008
Jan 31, 2008In a keynote given at the world-wide release party, streamed online, Project Lead Aaron Seigo introduced the new version of KDE.
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