Opera Complaint Against Microsoft Backed by FSFE
Jan 23, 2009Opera Software has filed a complaint against Microsoft's practice of tying Internet Explorer to Windows. The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has offered its backing of Opera's complaint.
more »Greg KH Self-Professed Email Junkie
Jan 19, 2009Novell kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman has released statistics on his personal email activity.
more »Quo Vadis, Mozilla?: 3-Point Plan for World Domination
Jan 14, 2009Mitchell Baker, chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation, has presented a plan in her blog whereby Mozilla will have Web world domination by 2010.
more »Novell Carousel: Manager Smid to HP, Colado Takes Over
Jan 08, 2009Former president of Novell's EMEA operations Volker Smid has taken over as head of operations at HP in Germany. Javier Colado assumes Smid's old role at Novell.
more »OLPC Cuts Staff by 50 Percent
Jan 08, 2009Today the One Laptop per Child Project announced that they will be reducing their team by about 50 percent and the remaining 32 team members will have salary reductions.
more »Appeal for BtrFS Inclusion in Kernel
Jan 06, 2009Chris Mason, lead developer of the copy-on-write BtrFS filesystem, has appealed for its inclusion in the Linux kernel.
more »Kernel Developers Tracking Down New Year's Eve Leap Second Issue
Jan 05, 2009A few server admins had reported Linux crashes right at the New Year's Eve countdown. Linux developers are currently investigating if they had anything to do with the leap second phenomenon.
more »Android on Netbooks
Jan 05, 2009The Android OS from Google is optimized for ARM processors and smaller displays, but, with some adjustment, can also run on netbooks.
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