Code Statistics: KDE Costs 175 Million Dollars
Oct 12, 2009The official KDE Project currently consists of 4.2 million lines of code. Cornelius Schumacher has applied the lines to individual projects and published the stats.
more »OpenDesktop Community Choose Winners of Desktop Contest
Oct 12, 2009About-information from developer profiles, desktop searches in online forums, an interface library and update notification of web page content bring the concept of a social desktop a step closer to reality.
more »Robot Submarine Wins with Debian
Oct 09, 2009A robotic submarine driven by Debian has won first place in the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) competition run at a U.S. Naval facility. The Debian project lauds the participating undergrads from Cornell University.
more »Harald Welte Exposes Netgear Open Source Router Sham
Oct 09, 2009With his GPL-Violations.org initiative, Harald Welte has often interceded on the behalf of GPL licensing. His current bone of contention is NetGear's WNR3500L "open source" router.
more »GNU Project Debugger 7.0
Oct 08, 2009As a source debugger for diverse programming languages such as C, C++ and Pascal, GNU Debugger 7.0 now supports the corresponding Darwin for Mac OS X.
more »Apache 2.2.14 Bug Fixes and More
Oct 08, 2009The Apache HTTP server version 2.2.14 incorporates significant bug fixes.
more »Where In the World Are the Most Debian Developers?
Oct 07, 2009Christian Perrier (Bubulle) issued statistics in his blog that show which countries of the world have the largest per capita Debian developers. First place goes to Finland.
more »Monitorix 1.4.0 Speaks Plaintext
Oct 06, 2009The free software monitoring software Monitorix is available in version 1.4.0. New among the features is a plaintext version.
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