Open Solutions Alliance Optimistic for 2009
Jan 20, 2009The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), a consortium of commercial Open Source providers, sent its members a survey as to the challenges ahead for free software and received some optimistic responses.
more »Foomatic 4.0 Printer Drivers Create PDFs
Jan 18, 2009Foomatic is now released in version 4.0. The software creates PDFs, describes external drivers better and includes PPD extensions.
more »Qt 4.5 Under Lesser GPL
Jan 15, 2009Nokia will offer its Qt widget collection software under less restrictive LGPL licensing and has opened up its repositories.
more »FBReader 0.10.0 with Extended Language Support
Jan 14, 2009The e-book reader FBReader 0.10.0 has been released for Linux and now supports more languages, including right-to-left and bidirectional.
more »Kernel 2.6.29: Corbet Says Btrfs Next Generation Filesystem
Jan 12, 2009Linux kernel developer Jonathan Corbet has just previewed the features of the upcoming Linux Kernel 2.6.29 that includes Btrfs, which he claims is the filesystem of the future.
more »Sony DSC-G3 Camera Has Wi-Fi and Linux
Jan 12, 2009Outwardly Sony's DSC-G3 is a 10-megapixel camera with Wi-Fi, but inside lurks the Busybox Linux system.
more »Vietnam Implements 100% Change To Open Source Software
Jan 08, 2009Vietnamese ministry servers are to run exclusively on open source software in 2009 and the government is also urging dealers to install the free software.
more »Security Lessons Why complexity is bad and open source is good
Dec 31, 2008When a test kernel starts wrecking network cards, the community gets busy.
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