Adobe AIR for Linux
Apr 01, 2008Software manufacturer Adobe has just released an initial alpha version for Linux of its developer environment AIR for Web technology .
more »Mercurial: Version 1.0 with Various Improvements
Mar 25, 2008Version 1.0 of Mercurial, a distributed version control system, has just been released.
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 »AMD Goes Open Source with APL
Feb 21, 2008AMD has released its AMD Performance Library (APL) under the Apache License 2.0 as the Open Source Framewave project.
more »GCC Developers Publish Bugfix Release
Feb 05, 2008The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) developers have now released version 4.2.3, which fixes a number of bugs.
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 »SUNSHINE
Jan 28, 2008more »
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