Munich Adopts Kolab
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more »Piviti Seeks Funding
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more »Debian Tech Committee Votes for systemd
Feb 11, 2014Debian project puts init out to pasture and says no to Ubuntu's Upstart.
more »KDE Open Hardware Dot-Org Mobile Hardware
Feb 11, 2014KDE starts a crowdfunding campaign for open hardware.
more »Epoch 1.0 Released
Jan 27, 2014New alternative for init comes with a small footprint and minimal configuration.
more »Wayland 1.4 Challenges X11
Jan 27, 2014X marks the target for the next-generation windowing system.
more »Will DNF Replace Yum? Behind the Scenes at Fedora’s Future Package Manager
Jan 14, 2014DNF will soon replace Yum as Fedora’s default package manager, but it still has some hurdles to overcome.
more »Red Hat Adopts CentOS
Jan 13, 2014Super-clone CentOS Linux gets beamed up to the mother ship.
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It’s Time to Test Fedora 45 Beta
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AI Fixes Linux Bottlenecks Using “Hideous” Code
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Advanced Video Coding Still Under Patent
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2,000 Vulnerabilities per Linux Release
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