Operating Systems News and Articles

Version 1.1 of Sun Microsystems' ODF Plugin for Microsoft’s Office suite now includes a multi-language package. A new version of the OpenXML-ODF Translator is now available for downloading from Sourceforge.

Debian project maintainers who just stop maintaining their software packages and fail to respond to mail are a big problem for the free Linux distribution. Now, Debian is introducing new rules to resolve the issue.

Debconf, the annual Debian Project Conference will be taking place in Spain’s Extremadura region 2009, as Jörg Jaspert announced on the free software project’s mailing list.

Centos, a distribution based on the GPL’d sources of Red Hat Linux is following in its role model’s footsteps and has just gone to version 5.1.

The Opensuse project is collecting ideas for a visual rework of the Yast management tool.

Linux distributor Red Hat has launched a public beta co-marketing initiative of its enterprise platform as a software service in cooperation with Amazon.

Following eight alpha versions, Mozilla has now released for first beta of version three of the Firefox web browser.