Moonlight 2.0: Microsoft and Novell Loosen Agreement
Dec 21, 2009In close collaboration with Microsoft, a Novell team behind developer Miguel de Icaza has released version 2.0 of its Silverlight clone Moonlight.
more »Screensaver with Unicode
Dec 18, 2009Debian developer Joachim Breitner offers up a screensaver which displays random characters from a reserve supplied by Unicode.
more »Novell Reorganizes
Dec 18, 2009In January 2010 Novell will consolidate four business units down to two and eventually say farewell to managers Jeff Jaffee and Roger Levy.
more »Mark Shuttleworth Resigns as Canonical CEO
Dec 18, 2009Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and CEO of Canonical has announced the transfer of his post to Canonical COO Jane Silber.
more »Fedora Will Make the Leap to Package Source Control System Git
Dec 18, 2009During the FUDCon in Toronto, the Fedora team discussed changes to central infrastructure, among which the change to Git.
more »ODROID: Portable Android-Based Game Console
Dec 16, 2009In simple terms, the ODROID game console comes down to iPhone hardware mixed with Android software in a Nintendo box.
more »Cyberthreat Forecasts for 2010: More Complex with New Targets
Dec 16, 2009Russian security experts Kaspersky ventures a forecast for malware development in 2010 and sees new types of attacks coming our way.
more »APT2 to Accelerate Debian Package Installation
Dec 15, 2009Debian and Ubuntu developer Julian Andres Klode has reported in his blog about the progress of his APT2 software, an alternative implementation of the Debian Advanced Packaging Tool (APT).
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Rocky Linux 9.3 Available for Download
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Ubuntu Budgie Shifts How to Tackle Wayland
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OpenELA Releases Enterprise Linux Source Code
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