Matt Asay Joins Canonical as COO
Feb 08, 2010Following the withdrawal of Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth from the day to day running of the company, and his replacement by Jane Silber, Matt Asay has now moved into the free post of chief operating officer.
more »FOSDEM 2010: OpenIntents Addresses Dependency Management
Feb 08, 2010Under the motto "Reuse components, don't reinvent the wheel," Friedger Mueffke, founder of OpenIntents, described his project and its next steps. Using so-called intents, Android apps can provide services to other apps.
more »EBox Server in Version 1.4
Feb 08, 2010Spanish company eBox Technologies has released version 1.4 of its Linux server for small to medium sized enterprises.
more »FOSDEM 2010: Andrew Tanenbaum Sets Reliability Before Performance
Feb 08, 2010Computer science veteran Andrew Tanenbaum presented the third version of his Minix operating system at the FOSDEM 2010 conference on February 6-7 in Brussels, Belgium.
more »Google Tablet with Chromium OS?
Feb 03, 2010Apple's iPad has evidently inspired the free Chromium OS and Google into developing a hardware implementation in tablet form.
more »CeBIT Open Source Project Lounge -- LiMux LiMux - the Open Source Client of the City of Munich
Feb 02, 2010LiMux is among the 15 projects that will present their work at CeBIT, the famous government client project of the City of Munich.
more »Netbook Distro Leeenux Linux 2.0 with lots of Applications
Feb 02, 2010Leeenux Linux is a netbook distribution for the EeePC 701G, and is now available as version 2.0, complete with many new applications.
more »Zarafa Releases Community Version 6.40 RC1
Feb 01, 2010The Dutch-German groupware producer Zarafa has just made the first version of its collaboration platform 6.40 ready for testing.
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