24-Hour Marathon - Mozilla Researches Trends
Aug 17, 2007A 24-hour marathon will be taking place September 14 through 16 under the label of Mozilla 24 to give the Mozilla community the chance to talk to Web experts and university staff.
more »Affero GPL Draft Posted for Discussion
Aug 16, 2007The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has completed and posted the final draft of the GNU Affero GPL Version 3 (AGPL).
more »“Hai Ti!” Comics SchoolNet Namibia promotes OSS with comics
Aug 15, 2007If you want to promote the use of open source software, you might like this innovative approach out of Africa – comic strips.
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XenEnterprise v4 with Live Migration and High Availability
Aug 13, 2007US corp. XenSource announces version 4 of its XenEnterprise virtualization software for Monday.
more »Bittorrent: Closed Source and Windows Only
Aug 10, 2007Version 6.0 of the Bittorrent filesharing client will no longer be Open Source and it is currently available for Windows only.
more »Mandriva Linux 2008 Beta 1 Released
Aug 09, 2007Mandriva "Cassini" includes kernel 2.6.22 and new versions of various applications, and it supports a whole bunch of new hardware. Compiz Fusion replaces Beryl.
more »Linux for 30,000 PCs at Schools in India
Aug 08, 2007The Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT) will be installing Suse Linux Enterprise on 30,000 desktops and 1880 servers at schools in the southern Indian state.
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