"The GNU project and the GCC developers are pleased to announce the release of GCC 4.2.2"
Read more »Making Sure Linux Doesn't Get Lost in Translation
With English as the dominant language used by Linux developers in much of the world, Japanese and Chinese software and hardware developers have a huge hurdle to overcome. Having enthusiastic attendees at Linux symposiums staged in Japan does help, but culture and language differences still get in the way.
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Ubuntu pride--on the basketball court
Word comes, via The Boston Herald, that Linux fans may want to throw their support to Gang Green because of the team's new rallying cry, "ubuntu."
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GNU and FSF News for October 2007
"...RMS will be in Bogoto, Columbia on 10 October, speaking about the goals and philosophy of the Free Software movement. On the 12th and 13th of October, he'll be San Jose, Costa Rica talking about software patents and how they obstruct software development (at the first talk) and about the history and status of the GNU Operating System (at the second talk).
Read more »A Death Threat From A Puppy Linux Supporter
I’ve just been informed by e-mail that not only are some defenders of Puppy Linux flaming me on the new DistroWatch Weekly comments but one actually issued a death threat against me for being “negative” about his or her favorite distribution in a recent post here on O’ReillyNet. It’s one thing for a distribution to be well liked and inspire loyalty.
Read more »David Bienvenu also leaving Mozilla. Thunderbird in trouble?
David Bienvenu, the other only full time Thunderbird developer has also announced he will be leaving the Mozilla Corporation next Friday. The post comes just a couple of days after Scott McGregor’s own leaving message also stating he intends to continues as a volunteer module owner.
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Mandriva 2008 ha sido liberada y esta disponible para descargarla
Orgullosamente anunciamos que Mandriva 2008 esta ahora disponible para descarga por BitTorrent y sobre la red de servidores públicos HTTP y FTP.
Mandriva 2008 es el resultado de seis meses de pruebas y desarrollo exhaustivo, la 2008 incluye todo lo ultimo en Software Libre y muchas mejoras, aun más que las versiones anteriores.
Read more »Mandriva Linux 2008 now available
We're proud to announce that Mandriva Linux 2008 is now available for download via BitTorrent, and on the network of public mirror servers.
Read more »google phone? open says it all…
"...Unlike Apple, Google is not expected to release an actual phone, but instead has developed an open-source software solution..."
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Welcome to the new OpenID Site!
"Scott Kveton and I have spent today out in the sunny Tulsa, Oklahoma offices of Vidoop working with their team on a gigantic update to OpenID.net...
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Mac and Linux fail to capitalise on Vista mistakes
IT LOOKS like the Mac OS-X and Linux operating system have failed to do any damage to Microsoft Windows, despite the Vista fiasco.
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Get down with OpenBSD rock
Continuing its quirky habit of releasing a song for each new release the OpenBSD team has released the official 4.2 song. OpenBSD leader Theo de Raadt describes it as "mid-era Rush song".
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Why did GNUstep never really take off?
As the GNUstep homepage states, “GNUstep is a cross-platform, object-oriented framework for desktop application development. Based on the OpenStep specification originally created by NeXT (now Apple), GNUstep enables developers to rapidly build sophisticated software by employing a large library of reusable software components.”
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OpenOffice.org Tipping Point?
Slipstreaming GullI've been engaged with the OpenOffice.org community for a number of years, and I'm as aware as anyone that it has had some historic issues with its contribution processes.
Read more »Summer of Code 2007
This is the last of four interviews with Summer of Code 2007 students in KDE (read the first, second, third).
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