Weave Sync Performance Improvements
Aug 19, 2009Mozilla developers have released a status report on the web synchronization service Weave.
more »Fraunhofer Institute on OOXML und ODF
Aug 19, 2009The Fraunhofer Institute has published a whitepaper on the interoperability of Office Open XML (OOXML) and the Open Document Format (ODF). Microsoft had a hand in its development.
more »Rpath to Foresight Linux: Change to Fedora!
Aug 18, 2009In order for Foresight Linux to follow development trends more quickly, Michael Johnson (the founder of rPath and former head of Fedora) has proposed switching from rPath Linux to Fedora.
more »Linux from Scratch 6.5 Available
Aug 18, 2009The Linux from Scratch (LFS) intensive training has been updated to version 6.5.
more »Touch Me: Ubuntu to Improve Touchscreen Support in 9.10
Aug 17, 2009Ubuntu wants to get as many touchscreens working as possible for Karmic Koala. The developers are asking for help by collecting vendor and product IDs for USB touchscreens out in the market.
more »16 Years of Debian
Aug 17, 2009It was about 16 years ago that Ian Murdock came upon the idea to design a new Linux distro. He named it Debian after Debra and Ian.
more »openSUSE Cuts Maintenance Cycle to 18 Months
Aug 17, 2009Instead of 24 months and 3 versions, Novell will in future only supply 2 updates in 18 months for openSUSE.
more »Chrome Clone Alpha on Linux
Aug 14, 2009Iron, a privacy clone of the Chrome Google browser, is now released in its first test version on Linux.
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