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Tech Tools
Mar 15, 2013- Zend Studio 10 Announced
- Django 1.5 Released
- Tizen 2.0 Now Available
- Ruby 2.0 Released
Linux News
Mar 15, 2013Jailbreak Spat
- White House goes on record in support of freedom to jailbreak cell phones
- News Bites
10 RHEL 6.4 Released
- Yahoo ends telecommuting,
- Canonical UDS
- LG purchases WebOS from HP
11 Passwords Passé
- FIDO alliance seeks new authentication methods
- Largest Mersenne prime discovered
Welcome Editorial
Mar 15, 2013Like any self-respecting Linux journalist, I’m often predisposed to take Microsoft to task. For the record, I do manage to spread it around, with occasional reflections on Apple and Google, because I truly believe our universe has room for more than one evil empire. But Microsoft is still the easiest mark. It used to be easy to make fun of Microsoft because they were so formidable and vast. Now it is easy to make fun of them because they get it wrong so often, and it is downright amusing to see so much hype and media attention going to such inelegant products.
more »Simon Voice Control Controlling Linux with voice input
Feb 22, 2013Simon is a sophisticated speech recognition tool with easy access to two powerful speech recognition engines, Julius and CMU Sphinx.
more »Welcome Editorial
Feb 22, 2013A closed-source code base is a huge, ever-fading inertial mass. When it begins, with those first exhilarating lines, or even up through the first few releases, you can truly say that you are writing it. But after a while, it is more like you are tending it – or feeding it. It becomes an investment, an asset, a castle you are protecting, which means all your strategies are defensive and your dreams will not stray far from your spot of holy ground.
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Feb 22, 2013- Google Releases C++ B-Tree Template Library
- Unmetered.com
- Oracle Releases MySQL 5.6
- Eclipse Releases Hudson 3.0
Doghouse – Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi produces a “step function in fun”
Feb 22, 2013The Raspberry Pi computer has rekindled interest in tinkering with hardware and created a market for products combining the tiny computer with customized software.
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Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs Transitions to Linux
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Linux Mint 20 Reaches EOL
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TuxCare Announces Support for AlmaLinux 9.2
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Go-Based Botnet Attacking IoT Devices
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Plasma 6.5 Promises Better Memory Optimization
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KaOS 2025.05 Officially Qt5 Free
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Linux Kernel 6.15 Now Available
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