Amarok 2.1 Test Phase Begins
Apr 15, 2009By their own accord, the Amarok music player people are working on the "coolness factor" for Amarok 2.1 and hope to make a good first impression with their Beta 1.
more »License Discussion at Wikipedia
Apr 14, 2009The Wikipedia community is currently in the process of deciding whether the site’s contents should also be regulated under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike license.
more »Debian Updates Lenny
Apr 14, 2009An update for the new, stabler version of Debian 5.0 has appeared over Easter.
more »Steve McIntyre Re-Elected as Debian Project Leader
Apr 14, 2009Debian developers have decided: Steve McIntyre has been re-elected as Debian leader for the next legislative period.
more »We're Linux! Video Competition Winners Announced
Apr 09, 2009The Linux Foundation has announced the winners of its video competition. With more than one hundred entries, the competition with the sub-title, “We're Linux”, called for videos that showed what Linux actually means to its community.
more »KDE 4 for Netbooks: Work on Plasma Begins
Apr 09, 2009At the last KDE developer's Akademy conference, the Plasma team had assembled some ideas for KDE 4 on netbooks. These ideas will now become reality.
more »OpenSUSE 1-Click Link Collection
Apr 08, 2009A selection of categorized 1-click installers is now being displayed on the openSUSE community website.
more »Debian Creates Branches for FreeBSD Kernels
Apr 06, 2009Debian users can soon decide whether to install on Linux or FreeBSD kernels.
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XZ Gets the All-Clear
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Linux Usage Increases in Two Key Areas
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Vulnerability Discovered in xz Libraries
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Canonical Bumps LTS Support to 12 years
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