Driver Project: Kroah-Hartman Looking for More Hardware
Oct 30, 2007The driver project launched by kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman doesn't have enough hardware to work on. Although the Linux Driver project has enough developers, they aren't all working at full capacity, says Kroah-Hartman in his blog.
more »Patent Protection: Turbolinux to Cooperate with Microsoft
Oct 24, 2007Microsoft cooperates with yet another Linux distributor. Turbolinux has concluded a contract with the Redmonder software giant.
more »Trolltech Greenphone Sell-Out
Oct 22, 2007Norwegian developers Trolltech have sold out their entire inventory of Linux Greenphones. This is the end of Trolltech’s excursion into the world of hardware.
more »Lucasfilm Goes for Trolltech’s Qt
Oct 16, 2007Lucasfilm Limited, famous for its movie projects such as Star Wars and Indiana Jones, will be using Qt as the user interface for the development of digital entertainment software in future.
more »Debconf 8 Scheduled for August 2008 in Argentina
Oct 16, 2007The international Debian Developer Conference 2008 will be held in the Argentine cirty of Mar del Plata August 2 through 17.
more »Madwifi Project Looking to Found Non-Profit Organization
Oct 07, 2007The developers of the free Madwifi WLAN driver for Atheros chipset-based devices are discussing the foundation of a non-profit organization.
more »Go Ahead for Opensuse 10.3
Oct 05, 2007Seven months after the first alpha version, Novell and the community have made it on schedule: the new, free Suse distribution includes a KDE 4 preview, one-click installation, the new Libzypp package manager, and an accelerated boot process.
more »Linux Conquers the Canaries
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