Red Hat Seeks Defense Against Patent Lawsuit
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more »Arch Linux: Linux for Advanced Users
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more »Linux Clients for Brazil's Schools
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more »FBReaderJ 0.3.0: Free E-Book Reader for Android
Feb 18, 2009FBReaderJ, a GPL program for e-book display on the Android mobile platform, is now available in version 0.3.0.
more »Adobe and Nokia Provide $10 Million Fund for Mobile Flash Development
Feb 17, 2009Under the auspices of the Open Screen Project, mobile vendor Nokia and software maker Adobe are providing a $10 million fund to help developers create mobile Flash applications. The underlying software will become free at least to some extent, according to Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch.
more »Novell openSUSE: Development Ebbing?
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more »Debian 5.0: Way to Go, Lenny!
Feb 16, 2009The deal is closed: Debian 5.0, code-named Lenny, is officially available.
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Feb 16, 2009A new version of Wine, the program loader that lets Windows run on Linux, has been released.
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Linux Kernel 6.17 is Available
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Zorin OS 18 Beta Available for Testing
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Fedora Linux 43 Beta Now Available for Testing
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USB4 Maintainer Leaves Intel
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Budgie 10.9.3 Now Available
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KDE Linux Alpha Available for Daring Users
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AMD Initiates Graphics Driver Updates for Linux Kernel 6.18
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AerynOS Alpha Release Available
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AUR Repository Still Under DDoS Attack
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