SourceForge Denies Service for "Rogue" Nations
Jan 26, 2010SourceForge, the hosting and communication platform for many free software projects, is bowing to U.S. regulations and denying service to users from nations on the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions list.
more »Cold War at the Eighth KDE PIM Gathering
Jan 15, 2010The eighth annual KDE PIM developer meeting in Osnabrück, Germany started out with an extended snowball fight among the Scottish, German and Dutch contingencies. That actual work was being done was evidenced by enhancements to Akonadi, KDE 4.4 and 4.5, and planned further development of the Kontact groupware client.
more »Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 2 Removes HAL
Jan 15, 2010The development of Ubuntu 10.04 is taking another turn. Lucid Lynx now has a second alpha version that gets rid of HAL.
more »Ted Ts'o Joins Google and Helps with Ext4 Migration
Jan 15, 2010Formerly kernel and file system developer at the Linux Foundation, Theodore Ts'o has been working at Google since January. His first project: The migration of the file system ext4.
more »Vmware Buys Zimbra
Jan 13, 2010Virtualization specialists VMware has enriched its portfolio with the open source based tool groupware Zimbra.
more »Open Norway: Norwegian Broadcasting Moves to OpenOffice and ODF
Jan 13, 2010Norway's national broadcasting and TV facility NRK is intent on using the Open Document Format as a standard and is therefore changing its clients over to OpenOffice.
more »Android Platform 2.1 for Developers
Jan 13, 2010Google's latest release, Android 2.1, comes not only with the mobile operating system but also a developer kit.
more »Ttylinux 9.1 Supports USB HID
Jan 11, 2010The very frugal ttylinux distro is available in version 9.1.
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