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KDE Rallies Bug Hunters
May 16, 2008Sunday is the 4th KDE Bug Day with the focus on finding errors in Konqueror.
more »CeBIT 2008 Hanging out in Hannover, Germany
May 01, 2008At CeBIT 2008, the world's biggest computer fair, popular topics included Green IT, mini-PCs, and open source.
more »FOSDEM 2008 A report from FOSDEM 2008
May 01, 2008Now into its eighth year, the FOSDEM developer conference in Brussels, Belgium, demonstrates that it is very much alive and kicking, and even celebrating records.
more »SCALE 6x SCALE 6x: Women in Open Source Conference
May 01, 2008In February, Linux and open source enthusiasts met in southern California for SCALE 6x. The conference kicked off with a day of "Friday Special Events," including a Women in Open Source conference.
more »Free Live Stream of Apachecon Europe Keynotes
Apr 07, 2008Linux Magazine is broadcasting a live stream from ApacheCon Europe 2008, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (April 9 through 11). The keynotes from the developer conference are available free of charge.
more »USENIX Announces Open Access to Conference Proceedings
Mar 31, 2008USENIX conference proceedings now available free of charge to general public.
more »Brazil Says “NO” Again to OOXML
Mar 26, 2008In his blog, Avi Alkalay, an Open Standards, Open Source and Linux advisor at IBM Brazil, reports on the official Brazilian vote, which was decided by consensus of the entire technical team, and quite firmly says that OOXML does not deserve to be an international ISO standard.
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KDE Announces Software Compilation 4.13
New release comes with better semantic search and improvements to Kontact.
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Coverity: Open Source Code has Fewer Defects
Annual code quality report shows FOSS is more secure at all project size levels.
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An Even Smaller Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced an even smaller version of the tiny computer that will fit into a DIMM slot.
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Freaky Privilege Escalation Attack
A new class of problems lets a malicious app pre-configure an invisible privilege update.
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Facebook Rolls Out New PHP-like Programming Language
New Hack language adds static typing and other conveniences.
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Fedora Announces Innovative Crytography Policy System
New crypto policy system will offer easier configuration and more uniform security.
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Shuttleworth Calls for Declarative Firmware
Ubuntu founder denounces insecurity in proprietary, close-source software blobs.
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New TLS Attack Takes the S out of HTTPS
Vulnerability affects many Linux web servers
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Munich Adopts Kolab
The Bavarian capital shuns Microsoft, Google, and other alternatives to implement an open source groupware solution.
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Canonical Announces Ubuntu Smartphones
Phone vendor partnerships bring Mark Shuttleworth's dream of Ubuntu on a phone a step closer to reality.