ATI Wants Open Source Drivers
Sep 07, 2007Following speculation about the graphics card vendor ATI and a free Linux driver, a company representative has now confirmed that ATI will be placing the specifications of the R500 under an NDA.
more »GnuTLS Version 2.0.0 Released
Sep 07, 2007Version 2.0.0 of the GnuTLS security database improves access to X.509 certificates and adds RSA with SHA-256/384/512 certificates to the crop of supported crypto approaches.
more »Red Hat Releases JBoss ESB 4.2
Sep 06, 2007Red Hat Linux has just released JBoss ESB 4.2, a community variant of its JBoss middleware.
more »Competition: XML for Mini-Browser in VoIP Phones
Sep 05, 2007Snom is calling for developers to submit inventive XML applications for the mini-browser in its Linux-based VoIP phones. Contributions will be published under the BSD license.
more »Linus Torvalds: No Kernel 3.0
Aug 23, 2007Linux inventor Linus Torvalds says there's no need for Kernel 3.0.
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