Novell Rejects Elliott Associates Buyout
Mar 22, 2010Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian informed all Novell customers per email on March 20 that the buyout proposal from Elliott Associates was rejected in that it undervalued the company.
more »Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.1 builds on KVM
Mar 16, 2010The French Linux distributor Mandriva, has updated its Enterprise Server 5 that first appeared mid 2009.
more »If Dreams Were Real: Convergence of Distro and Kernel Versions
Mar 16, 2010Mark Shuttleworth had a dream: the big Linux distros should agree to have version numbers identical to those of kernel components and refresh them every two years. The dream now is more real than ever.
more »KDE: Contest for Plasmoid Programmers
Mar 15, 2010Whosoever has played with the idea of programming a KDE miniprogram now has the opportunity to win a Nokia N900. The Plasma JavaScript Jam Session runs until the end of March 2010.
more »SystemRescueCd 1.4.0 Boots Off Net
Mar 12, 2010The SystemRescueCd, a Live CD for troubleshooting computers, comes with new boot methods in version 1.4.0.
more »Microsoft's CodePlex Foundation Announces Board
Mar 11, 2010Among the prominent new appointees to the open source foundation from Redmond are Jim Jagielski of VMware and Apache fame. Promoted from within Microsoft are two other board members.
more »Oracle Goes with Own DB, SPARC and UNIX
Mar 11, 2010In Munich, Wednesday, March 10, Oracle announced its upcoming strategy for the Sun takeover: the new couple will now sell complete packages and, next to Oracle's database, further develop Solaris along with Sun's SPARC and Flashfire server technologies.
more »Swiss Canton Makes E-Government Solution Open Source
Mar 09, 2010The Swiss canton Zug has put a collaboration solution called iZug under GPL licensing.
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Armbian 24.11 Released with Expanded Hardware Support
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SUSE Renames Several Products for Better Name Recognition
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New Linux Kernel Patch Allows Forcing a CPU Mitigation
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 Released
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Linux Sees Massive Performance Increase from a Single Line of Code
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Fedora KDE Approved as an Official Spin
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New Steam Client Ups the Ante for Linux
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