KDE Rallies Bug Hunters
May 16, 2008Sunday is the 4th KDE Bug Day with the focus on finding errors in Konqueror.
more »First Thunderbird 3 Alpha
May 15, 2008The Mozilla project has just announced the availability of the initial alpha version of Thunderbird 3, codenamed "Shredder".
more »Embedded Maintainer for Linux Kernel Wanted
Apr 22, 2008Andrew Morton, the Linux Kernel 2.6 maintainer announced last week at the Embedded Linux Conference in Mountain View that he is looking for an architecture-independent embedded specialist.
more »Resumée: Greg Kroah-Hartman on the Linux Driver Project
Apr 10, 2008For over a year now, the Linux Driver Project (LDP) has offered free development of hardware drivers. Novell gave its employee and the project initiator Greg Kroah-Hartman a sabbatical for driver programming; Kroah-Hartmann recently published a status report.
more »VIA Promotes Driver Development
Apr 09, 2008Chip manufacturer VIA has announced a strategic Open Source initiative for Linux driver development.
more »Initial Qt 4.4 Release Candidate
Apr 04, 2008The new version includes Webkit and Phonon as part of the cross-platform library for graphical user interfaces. Trolltech has asked developers to test the RC.
more »TCPDF 3.0: More Image Formats and CMYK for PDFs
Mar 28, 2008Version 3.0 of TCPDF, a PHP library for creating PDF documents has just been released.
more »Next Firefox 3 Beta
Mar 11, 2008The Mozilla developers have worked around 900 improvements into the fourth beta version.
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Linux May Soon Work on Snapdragon X2-Based PCs
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KDE for People Initiative Calls for AI Ban in Plasma
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KDE Sets Ambitious Goals for 2026 and Beyond
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It’s Time to Test Fedora 45 Beta
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Ubuntu Stonking Stingray Gets Even Rustier
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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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