Qt Applications as Browser Applets
Dec 21, 2009"Qt Everywhere" is the motto of Nokia's GUI toolkit smiths. Now developer Morten Sorvig has transplanted Qt apps into the Firefox browser.
more »Novell Reorganizes
Dec 18, 2009In January 2010 Novell will consolidate four business units down to two and eventually say farewell to managers Jeff Jaffee and Roger Levy.
more »APT2 to Accelerate Debian Package Installation
Dec 15, 2009Debian and Ubuntu developer Julian Andres Klode has reported in his blog about the progress of his APT2 software, an alternative implementation of the Debian Advanced Packaging Tool (APT).
more »Oracle Promises EU Concessions for a Free MySQL
Dec 14, 2009Oracle is aiming for more transparency in the debate about the future of the databank MySQL and the pending investigation by the European Commission.
more »Red Hat Makes SPICE Open Source
Dec 14, 2009With the Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE), Red Hat has put one of the components of its desktop virtualization under GPL and BSD licensing.
more »DRBD Merged into Mainline Kernel
Dec 10, 2009The HA technology, Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD), is to be merged into the official Linux kernel, probably from version 2.6.33.
more »Bada: New Mobile Platform from Samsung
Dec 10, 2009Following a rather vague announcement in November, Samsung has now released details about their open smartphone development platform bada to the Web.
more »OpenInkpot 0.2 Linux E-Book with New Face
Dec 09, 2009The developers of OpenInkpot, a Linux distro for e-book readers with E Ink display, broadened the hardware support and enhanced the GUI and applications in version 0.2.
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