16 Years of Debian
Aug 17, 2009It was about 16 years ago that Ian Murdock came upon the idea to design a new Linux distro. He named it Debian after Debra and Ian.
more »Amarok supports storage on external data storage units
Aug 17, 2009As of yesterday, the Nightly Builds from Amarok now support storage maintenance on USB data storage units. This feature is to be found in Amarok 2.2.
more »openSUSE Cuts Maintenance Cycle to 18 Months
Aug 17, 2009Instead of 24 months and 3 versions, Novell will in future only supply 2 updates in 18 months for openSUSE.
more »Mozilla Recruiting Test Pilots
Aug 14, 2009Mozilla Labs is looking for users who have fun experimenting with the free browser's new features and is collecting structured feedback.
more »Tidydoc Document Organizer
Aug 13, 2009Tidydoc makes organizing documents easy, be it via a file transfer program or web interface. The open source software is now available in version 0.5.
more »Finnix 93.0 Fresh from Debian Testing
Aug 13, 2009Finnix, a LiveCD Linux distro for system administrators, is available in version 93.0.
more »Novell: More Support for openSUSE
Aug 12, 2009Linux distributor Novell is reorganizing: from now on, one developer team will dedicate itself entirely to openSUSE.
more »Scribus 1.3.5.1 Based on Qt 4
Aug 12, 2009After almost two years development the Scribus free desktop publishing software is available in version 1.3.5.1.
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