Nouveau Driver Comes to Kernel 2.6.33
Dec 15, 2009Good news for anyone with a NVIDIA graphics card: the Nouveau driver goes into Kernel 2.6.33 and supports DRM.
more »Graphics Application Krita Gets Photoshop Import
Dec 03, 2009Following the release of KOffice 2.1, developers of the free office suite met last weekend in Norway's Oslo. Among them were the five strong team from Krita.
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Kernel News
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Inkscape 0.47 Makes Drawing Freely Easier
Nov 27, 2009The Inkscape team has come out after a year's time with a new release of their vector drawing program. It provides not only new features but countless detailed enhancements.
more »KOffice 2.1 Ready for Testing, Karbon Ready for Use
Nov 25, 2009About a half year after big technological changes, the KOffice project has released version 2.1 of its office suite, even if it's not quite ready for everyday use.
more »TeX Live 2009 Brings Font Updates and Windows TeXworks
Nov 13, 2009TeX Live, a comprehensive collection of software surrounding the TeX/LaTex font systems, is available in the 2009 edition.
more »AMD Catalyst Driver Supports Radeon 5800 and Ubuntu 9.10
Oct 26, 2009The version numbers couldn't have matched more perfectly: the AMD Catalyst Linux graphics driver 9.10 supports not only the newest ATI Radeon 5800 series but Ubuntu 9.10.
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Issue 32: Getting Started with Linux 2nd Ed./Special Editions
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News
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NextCloud 14 Arrives
The new version adds two new security features for users.
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Linus Torvalds Takes a Break, Apologizes
The creator of Linux is admitting his abusive behavior on LKML and plans to change.
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A New Business Model for Open Source Projects
Storj offers a new program that enables open source projects to monetize from storage.
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Linux Mint Debian Edition 3 Released
It’s Linux Mint without any Ubuntu base packages.
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Zorin OS 12.4 Released
It’s an extremely popular distribution among Windows and macOS users.
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Debian Celebrates Its Birthday
The great community Linux distro turns 25 years old.
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Chromebooks Support Debian Applications
Containerized Debian environment is now available through the Chrome OS dev channel.
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Opera Embraces Snap for Linux
Announcement may open doors for more mainstream applications to adopt Ubuntu's Snap package system.
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Canonical Fixes Boot Failure Issues in Ubuntu
The regression that led to boot failures was introduced by a previous patch.
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Weird Unofficial LibreOffice Version Shows Up in the Microsoft Store
Unknown developer wants you to pay $2.99 for a free tool.