Wikipedia Founder Seeks Limits on Editing
Jan 26, 2009Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has recommended reigning in edits of entries to the free-access online encyclopedia. The result has been an extensive dialogue in which the German Wikipedia community has provided some guidance based on its experience.
more »Venice Region Migrates to Open Source
Jan 26, 2009In an effort to reduce costs, municipal authorities in the Veneto region around the Italian city of Venice, will change to open source.
more »Sun's McNealy Advises Obama Administration on Open Source
Jan 23, 2009Sun cofounder Scott NcNealy has submitted a paper to the new U.S. administration about the cost savings and security benefits of Open Source software.
more »Open Solutions Alliance Optimistic for 2009
Jan 20, 2009The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), a consortium of commercial Open Source providers, sent its members a survey as to the challenges ahead for free software and received some optimistic responses.
more »Foomatic 4.0 Printer Drivers Create PDFs
Jan 18, 2009Foomatic is now released in version 4.0. The software creates PDFs, describes external drivers better and includes PPD extensions.
more »Qt 4.5 Under Lesser GPL
Jan 15, 2009Nokia will offer its Qt widget collection software under less restrictive LGPL licensing and has opened up its repositories.
more »FBReader 0.10.0 with Extended Language Support
Jan 14, 2009The e-book reader FBReader 0.10.0 has been released for Linux and now supports more languages, including right-to-left and bidirectional.
more »Kernel 2.6.29: Corbet Says Btrfs Next Generation Filesystem
Jan 12, 2009Linux kernel developer Jonathan Corbet has just previewed the features of the upcoming Linux Kernel 2.6.29 that includes Btrfs, which he claims is the filesystem of the future.
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Linux Kernel 5.4 Released
A number of new changes and improvements have reached the Linux kernel.
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System76 To Design And Build Laptops In-House
In-house designed and built laptops coming from System76.
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News and views on the GPU revolution in HPC and Big Data:
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The PinePhone Pre-Order has Arrived
Anyone looking to finally get their hands on an early release of the PinePhone can do so as of November 15.
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Microsoft Edge Coming to Linux
Microsoft is bringing it’s new Chromium-based Edge browser to Linux.
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Open Invention Network Backs Gnome Project Against Patent Troll
OIN has deployed its legal team to find prior art.
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Fedora 31 Released
The latest version of Fedora comes with new packages and libraries.
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openSUSE OBS Can Now Build Windows WSL Images
openSUSE enables developers to build their own WSL distributions.
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Sudo Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the sudo package gives sudo users more powers than they deserve.
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The Art of PostgreSQL
The Art of PostgreSQL by Dimitri Fontaine is now available.