Gran Canaria Desktop Summit: Better Audio for Free Desktops
Jul 05, 2009On the second day of the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, Gnome and KDE developers have been focused on topics surrounding meta data, community, and infrastructure. Concerning multimedia, audio support for the open source desktop has proved to be a hot topic.
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Jul 05, 2009Nokia will be using the Qt toolkit for its Maemo user interface in the future, according to an announcement the firm made at this year's Gran Canaria Desktop Summit.
more »Gran Canaria Desktop Summit: KDE and Gnome Formulate Common Goals
Jul 05, 2009On the first day of the joint developer conference on Gran Canaryia, representatives of the desktop projects Gnome and KDE formulated common goals for their future development.
more »Gran Canaria Desktop Summit: Saints, Gentlemen and Schoolchildren
Jul 04, 2009At the start of the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit on the Canary Islands, Richard Stallman, Robert Lefkowitz and Walter Bender rallied open source developers in their common tasks.
more »Debian to Stallman: Mono Not Default
Jul 03, 2009In a response to Richard Stallman's open letter warning about introducing Mono into Linux, Debian made it clear that no plans are indeed forthcoming to adopt Mono-based programs into the default installation of its free Linux platform.
more »OpenOffice Portable in Version 3.1
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more »VirtualBox 3.0: No More Booting Windows
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more »Sysvinit vs. Upstart: Boot Performance for Debian and Ubuntu
Jul 01, 2009Developers from Debian and Ubuntu met and discussed ways to improve boot performance at Canonical’s London headquarters.
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