Crosstool-NG 1.5.0 Adds Experimental AVR32 and Canadian Builds
Oct 07, 2009The free toolchain generator Crosstool-NG is available in version 1.5.0 and introduces numerous new features.
more »LinuxCon Presentations Available Online
Oct 07, 2009End of September was a meeting of open source experts in Portland, Oregon and Linux Pro Magazine was there with its video camera. Linus Torvalds and developer colleagues at the kernel roundtable, the hotly debated keynote by Mark Shuttleworth and all other presentations are available in our video archives.
more »Canonical Raises Ubuntu One Storage to 50 GBytes
Oct 06, 2009With the upcoming version 9.10 the Ubuntu One DropBox clone will be integrated automatically into Ubuntu's GNOME desktop. Paying customers will get a significant storage capacity upgrade.
more »X Server in New Version 1.7.0
Oct 05, 2009The X.org team has made its X Server 1.7.0 available for download. X.org 7.5 will soon follow, according to a new, ordered release strategy.
more »GNOME Foundation's First Quarterly Report
Sep 16, 2009The GNOME Foundation wants to issue regular quarterly reports to document the work on the free desktop. A Q2 2009 report is a good start.
more »Timechart: Zoom in on Operating System
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more »IndiMail 1.6 Includes Greylisting and BATV
Sep 14, 2009IndiMail, an email solution made of open source components, now includes greylisting spam filtering in version 1.6.
more »Botnet of Linux Servers with Dynamic IP Discovered
Sep 14, 2009A Russian Web developer has found a network of a couple of hundred Linux servers that could distribute malware to Windows systems.
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