Newest Puppy Linux in Version 4.2.1
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more »Red Hat vs. Switzerland:Official Complaint Against 40 Million Swiss Franc Contract
May 25, 2009In February, the Swiss Federal Office for Construction and Logistics (Bundesamt für Bauten und Logistik, or BBL) sealed a deal with Microsoft for an estimated 35-million-dollars worth of licenses. Red Hat, along with 17 other Open Source enterprises, has filed an official complaint.
more »Spanish Government Reconsiders School Laptop Project
May 25, 2009A widespread project to equip Spanish primary students with laptops was under attack by the free software community for being an undercover operation from Microsoft to take over the educational system in the country. Now the government is considering a kind of dual booting system.
more »Microsoft Patent: More Money for Less Functions
May 21, 2009With U.S. Patent 7,536,726, Microsoft has been granted a patent with which they hope to make a successful business model out of a potentially severely restricted operating system.
more »ODF Alliance: Microsoft Support for ODF is Lacking
May 20, 2009The Open Document Format (ODF) Alliance has analyzed whether Microsoft’s Service Pack 2 for Office 2007 fulfills the promise for compatibility with the free document standard. Their findings give little reason to hope.
more »Experiment: a June Without Windows
May 18, 2009Two Windows trainers will step into an unfamiliar world without Microsoft starting June 1st. The two bloggers will record their daily experiences with Linux from the perspective of Windows users to document the change-over for the newly converted.
more »Ksplice Awarded $100K from MIT
May 15, 2009The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has awarded this year's annual Entrepreneurship Competition award (the so-called "Hundred K") to the makers of Ksplice on May 13 in Cambridge. The kernel patch software Ksplice won the main award and also in the Web/IT category.
more »EU Fines Intel a Record 1.06 Billion Euro
May 15, 2009Chip giant Intel was handed a record fine of 1.06 billion Euro ($1.45 billion) for allegedly abusing its leading position in the CPU market.
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Canonical Bumps LTS Support to 12 years
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