Red Hat Seeks Defense Against Patent Lawsuit
Feb 19, 2009In October 2007 IP Innovation filed a lawsuit against Novell and Red Hat for violation of certain virtual desktop patents. Red Hat is now asking the community for help to invalidate it.
more »Arch Linux: Linux for Advanced Users
Feb 18, 2009Aimed at experienced users, the new version 2009.02 of Arch Linux comes with the new Ext4 data system and a re-worked installer.
more »Linux Clients for Brazil's Schools
Feb 18, 2009Brazil's municipal schools should be getting more than 350,000 power-saving thin clients for their students.
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?
Feb 16, 2009Last week Novell announced a layoff of almost 100 employees "in response to the global economic downturn," without any further details. New information now brings into question the software house's commitment to openSUSE.
more »Debian 5.0: Way to Go, Lenny!
Feb 16, 2009The deal is closed: Debian 5.0, code-named Lenny, is officially available.
more »New Wine with More Functions
Feb 16, 2009A new version of Wine, the program loader that lets Windows run on Linux, has been released.
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Fedora 43 Has Finally Landed
The Fedora Linux developers have announced their latest release, Fedora 43.
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KDE Unleashes Plasma 6.5
The Plasma 6.5 desktop environment is now available with new features, improvements, and the usual bug fixes.
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Xubuntu Site Possibly Hacked
It appears that the Xubuntu site was hacked and briefly served up a malicious ZIP file from its download page.
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LMDE 7 Now Available
Linux Mint Debian Edition, version 7, has been officially released and is based on upstream Debian.
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Linux Kernel 6.16 Reaches EOL
Linux kernel 6.16 has reached its end of life, which means you'll need to upgrade to the next stable release, Linux kernel 6.17.
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Amazon Ditches Android for a Linux-Based OS
Amazon has migrated from Android to the Linux-based Vega OS for its Fire TV.
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Cairo Dock 3.6 Now Available for More Compositors
If you're a fan of third-party desktop docks, then the latest release of Cairo Dock with Wayland support is for you.
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System76 Unleashes Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta
System76's first beta of Pop!_OS 24.04 is an impressive feat.
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Linux Kernel 6.17 is Available
Linus Torvalds has announced that the latest kernel has been released with plenty of core improvements and even more hardware support.
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Kali Linux 2025.3 Released with New Hacking Tools
If you're a Kali Linux fan, you'll be glad to know that the third release of this famous pen-testing distribution is now available with updates for key components.