FOSDEM: Enterprise Linux for all, thanks to Centos
Feb 09, 2009Dag Wieers of Project Centos made a passionate plea for more private users to turn to the free Red Hat Enterprise clone, and stressed that commercial companies with non-critical machines could also benefit from Centos.
more »FOSDEM: Pride and Success in 2009
Feb 09, 2009Over the weekend the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) took place in Brussels. In his keynote, Mozilla's Mark Surman hoped for Open Source's success and Debian key contributor Bdale Garbee supported its social contract. As an aside, Debian Lenny's target release date was reconfirmed.
more »Less Update Stress with openSUSE Built Packages
Feb 06, 2009Debian, Mandriva and Fedora developers call them Sid, Cooker and Rawhide. OpenSUSE calls them Factory and they are ringing the changes for the Factory development.
more »CeBIT Open Source Project Lounge -- Debian GNU/Linux Debian -- the free Linux distribution
Feb 05, 2009Debian is among the 15 projects that will present their work at CeBIT, offering a free Linux operating system Java-written platform for knowledge management.
more »Novell's SUSE on Dell Thin Clients
Feb 03, 2009SUSE Linux Enterprise Thin Client is now pre-installed on the newest Dell thin clients.
more »Slamd64: Slackware for 64-bit
Feb 03, 2009Fred Emmott has released the Slackware-based 64-bit distro with 2.6.27.7 kernel.
more »Debian Lenny Deep Freeze: February Release?
Feb 03, 2009The countdown for Debian Lenny has begun with the project team putting the code in deep freeze. The release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 is expected mid-February.
more »Golden Jackal: Pardus 2008.2 with KDE 4.2
Feb 02, 2009A quicker boot sequence, a revamped installer and improved hardware management: the new version of the Turkish Linux distro has arrived.
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