Firefox and Codecs: "Face of Mozilla" at Will of Community
Jan 29, 2010Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Foundation cofounder and present at the open source meeting in Munich sponsored by the foundation and OpenOffice.org, recommitted the open course the Firefox browser was taking with video codecs, but still wishes for more user feedback.
more »Yahoo and Ubuntu Deal on search Engines
Jan 28, 2010Among the changes to Ubuntu 10.04 is that Google will lose its place to Yahoo as the Firefox standard search engine. Canonical attributes it to financial reasons.
more »Oracle Supports MySQL and OpenOffice
Jan 28, 2010Following the European Commission's OK to Oracle's takeover of Sun Microsystems, Oracle has now released a statement from their top management about MySQL and Solaris.
more »Apple Presents iPad
Jan 28, 2010Steve Jobs presented the iPad tablet computer in San Francisco among great anticipation.
more »SpamAssassin 3.3.0 Splits Off Rules
Jan 28, 2010With version 3.3.0, the free spam filter SpamAssassin has its first big release since May, 2007.
more »KDE 4.3.5 Repairs Directory Issues
Jan 27, 2010For the fifth bugfix and translation update for the KDE Software Compilation 4.3, developers tackled among other things some hideous directory manifestations.
more »Lucidor 0.9 with OPDS and Full Screen Mode
Jan 27, 2010Lucidor, the free program for reading and organizing ebooks, now available in version 0.9 comes with the ability to read OPDS catalogs.
more »SourceForge Denies Service for "Rogue" Nations
Jan 26, 2010SourceForge, the hosting and communication platform for many free software projects, is bowing to U.S. regulations and denying service to users from nations on the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions list.
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