Kernel Development: Linux-next Complete
Mar 03, 2008The new "linux-next" Git tree, which aims to simplify and accelerate kernel development is more or less complete.
more »Trolltech Releases Qt 4.4 Beta
Feb 28, 2008Trolltech has just announced the first Qt 4.4 Beta on its website and made a download available. Among other features, the new version integrates Qt WebKit and multimedia framework that is based on Phonon.
more »New Qt Version 4.3.4 under GPLv3
Feb 25, 2008Trolltech is releasing version 4.3.4 of its GUI library under the version 3 of the GPL. Apart from this the makers of Qt have simply fixed bugs in the release.
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AMD Goes Open Source with APL
Feb 21, 2008AMD has released its AMD Performance Library (APL) under the Apache License 2.0 as the Open Source Framewave project.
more »Photoshop CS/CS2 on Wine – Thanks to Google
Feb 20, 2008Google uses Wine to provide Linux support for Picasa; now the search engine giant has commissioned the specialists from Codeweavers to improve Wine support for Adobe Photoshop CS and CS2 .
more »Linux Standard Base 3.2 Released
Feb 19, 2008The Linux Foundation has released version 3.2 of Linux Standard Base (LSB) which promise improved support for Perl, Python, printers and multimedia.
more »FOSDEM 2008: More Interviews with Speakers
Feb 14, 2008The organizers of the FOSDEM developer conference (Brussels, Belgium, 23 through 24 February 2008) have placed more interviews with speakers online.
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