Plasmate: Mini-IDE for Plasmoids
Feb 12, 2010The KDE project has released a first alpha version of Plasmate. The small development environment is meant for writing Plasmoid applets for the KDE4 desktop.
more »IBM's New POWER7 Machines Work with 8 x 32 Threads
Feb 10, 2010The new POWER7 processor has eight cores each running four threads. The biggest of the new POWER7 servers has almost 64 processor cores. An additional TurboCore mode can see to even better performance.
more »Rsync Interface for Maemo
Feb 05, 2010Grsync, a graphical user interface for the rsync synchronization tool, is now available in version 1.0.0 for Maemo.
more »Symbian Sourcecode Available
Feb 05, 2010The Symbian Foundation has released its mobile platform of the same name as free software.
more »Google Tablet with Chromium OS?
Feb 03, 2010Apple's iPad has evidently inspired the free Chromium OS and Google into developing a hardware implementation in tablet form.
more »Resurrected: KBluetooth
Feb 03, 2010KDE developer Alex Fiestas has taken on the orphaned KDE Bluetooth. The first release under his supervision, Kbluetooth 0.4, has now been released.
more »Netbook Distro Leeenux Linux 2.0 with lots of Applications
Feb 02, 2010Leeenux Linux is a netbook distribution for the EeePC 701G, and is now available as version 2.0, complete with many new applications.
more »Mobile Firefox "Fennec" Becomes 1.0
Feb 01, 2010After one and half years in development, the Mozilla project is now releasing its first stable version of its mobile Firefox, code-named Fennec. The target platform is initially Maemo.
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