The sys admin’s daily grind Calendar-related crontab issues
May 31, 2011This month, Charly considers Jacobin rule, Napoleon Bonaparte’s neoconservatism, Jewish and Islamic tradition, and a cronjob that nearly worked.
more »openSUSE Build Service Now Open Build Service
May 27, 2011openSUSE Build Service has a new name and new website.
more »Intel Capital Invests in CrowdStar, iStreamPlanet, Music Mastermind, and PerspecSys
May 23, 2011Intel Corporation's global investment organization announces US$24.5 million in U.S. computing investments.
more »Free Software Projects Programmable Blinky Lights, DIY Desktop Fab and 3D Printing, Arduino Boards
May 23, 2011Free/Open Source isn’t just about software, it’s also about hardware. Open hardware projects are proliferating, and just like open source software, you can get started inexpensively. Here are three projects that are fun, useful, and suitable for beginners to embedded programming, robotics, and building electronic devices.
more »Ubuntu App Developer Week: April 11-15
Apr 05, 2011New and experienced developers are invited to participate in Ubuntu App Developer Week, April 11-15, at #ubuntu-classroom on IRC.
more »Bash scripting Getting started with Bash scripting
Feb 28, 2011A few scripting tricks will help you save time by automating common tasks.
more »Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and Updated SDK Tools Released
Dec 06, 2010Xavier Ducrohet, Android SDK Tech Lead, announces today's release of Android 2.3 and updated SDK tools.
more »MeeGo 1.1 Released
Oct 29, 2010MeeGo 1.1 rolls out; 1.2 expected in April 2011
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News
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Google and NASA Partner in Quantum Computing Project
Vendor D-Wave scores big with a sale to NASA's Quantum Intelligence Lab.
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Mageia Project Announces Mageia 3 Linux
Many package updates and Steam integration highlight the latest from the Mandriva-based community Linux.
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FSF Outs the World Wide Web Consortium over DRM Proposal
Richard Stallman calls for the W3C to remain independent of vendor interests.
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Debian 7.0 Debuts
The new release supports nine architectures, 73 human languages, and zero non-Free components.
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Alpha Version of Fedora 19 Released
Fedora developers release the first alpha version of Fedora 19, known as Schrödinger’s Cat, for general testing. The final release is expected in July 2013.
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ack 2.0 Released
ack is a grep-like, command-line tool that has been optimized for programmers to search large trees of source code.
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SUSE Studio 1.3 Released
New features in SUSE Studio 1.3 include enhanced cloud integration, VM platform support, and lifecycle management.
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Xen To Become Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
The Linux Foundation recently announced that the Xen Project is becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.
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RunRev Releases Open Source Version of LiveCode
Open source version of LiveCode is now available for developing apps, games, and utilities for all major platforms.
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OpenDaylight Project Formed
OpenDaylight is an open source software-defined networking project committed to furthering adoption of SDN and accelerating innovation in a vendor-neutral and open environment.

