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Welcome to the 150th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Grml 2011.05, Super OS 11.04, Kororaa 14, Oracle Linux 6.1, Mandriva 2011 Beta 3, Legacy OS 2 and Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 1. In other news: Oracle has ceded control of the OpenOffice.org c... |
5 June 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Google has an interesting relationship with open source, it tries to make many of its projects available to others, yet can be very controlling and secretive at times. Still, the company continues to make big contributions especially for web technology. One of the latest is WebRTC a real-time communications platform ... |
2 June 2011
10:11 GMT |
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Welcome to the 149th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Fedora 15, Puppy Linux Wary 5.1.2, Linux Mint 11, Zenwalk GNOME 7.0 and Bodhi Linux 1.1.0. In other news: Nelson Marques announced that it will release the Unity interface for the openSU... |
28 May 2011
19:01 GMT |
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Perhaps one of the first victims of the Microsoft acquisition, Skype for Asterisk will no longer be supported after July 26. The tool enabled users of the open-source Asterisk PBX to integrate Skype into their system. It was developed by a third-party, Digium, in partnership with Skype, but the now Microsoft owned Vo... |
25 May 2011
07:40 GMT |
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Welcome to the 148th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Kanotix 2011-05, Salix OS Xfce 13.37, Pinguy OS 11.04, Clonezilla Live 1.2.8-42 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1. In other news: Softpedia presented a nice article with various keyboard ... |
21 May 2011
19:01 GMT |
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Welcome to the 147th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Pinguy OS 11.04 Beta, antiX MEPIS 11, Alpine 2.2.0, iQunix OS 11.04, SimplyMEPIS 11.0, Sabily 11.04, Parted Magic 6.1, Zenwalk Live 7.0, Linux Mint 11 RC and BackTrack 5. In other news: ... |
11 May 2011
10:04 GMT |
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Anything that touches on online privacy is sure to get a lot of attention and anything that "reveals" how some big company is abusing your private data is sure to cause a stir. Google is a popular target these days and, in the aftermath of the whole Apple iPhone location tracking thing, its Android mobile operating s... |
9 May 2011
10:20 GMT |
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Welcome to the 146th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Bayanihan Linux 5.4, Ubuntu 11.04, Slackware 13.37, Lubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu Rescue Remix 11.04. In other news: Clement Lefebvre announced the end-of-life for the Linux Mint 5 LTS operat... |
2 May 2011
17:01 GMT |
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Welcome to the 145th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Parted Magic 6.0, Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 2, Mandriva 2011 Beta 2 and Fedora 15 Beta. In other news: Canonical announced the end-of-life for the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition (Hardy Heron)... |
25 April 2011
08:40 GMT |
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Welcome to the 144th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Linux Mint Xfce 201104, SystemRescueCd 2.1.0 and CentOS 5.6. In other news: Canonical announced that it will no longer ship free Ubuntu CDs; the GNOME Project announced the final release... |
11 April 2011
11:01 GMT |
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GNOME 3, the next evolution of the GNOME desktop environment, has just been released a few minutes ago. The GNOME developers have just announced today, April 6th, in a press release that the final and stable version of the popular GNOME 3 desktop environment is now available for download. GNOME 3 is a light desktop... |
6 April 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Welcome to the 143rd issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 1 (Natty Narwhal), Parsix GNU/Linux 3.6r2 and Puppy Linux 5.2.5. In other news: Softpedia takes a first look at the Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 1 (Natty Narwhal) operating system... |
5 April 2011
12:01 GMT |
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One thing that Google likes to boast is Android's 'openness' as opposed to Apple's iron rule over iOS and the App Store. Openness, Google says, ensures that the best solutions always come forward and that the focus is on the technology, with the users and the companies involved benefiting. It'... |
31 March 2011
10:00 GMT |
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Welcome to the 142nd issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 Beta, GParted Live 0.8.0-5, Trisquel 4.5, Zenwalk Linux 7.0 and Foresight Linux 2.5.0. In other news: The Document Foundation announced the release of LibreOff... |
29 March 2011
17:01 GMT |
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A few minutes ago, The Document Foundation company launched the second maintenance release of the LibreOfficeb 3.3 open source office suite for Linux, Windows and Macintosh platforms. The next major release, LibreOffice 3.4 will be released in mid May, 2011.LibreOffice 3.3.2 is available now (see download links at th... |
22 March 2011
08:03 GMT |
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Welcome to the 141st issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Ultimate Edition 2.9, Linux Mint 10 LXDE, Mandriva 2011 Beta 1, Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.2, SalineOS 1.3 and Debian 6.0.1. In other news: Linus Torvalds proudly announced the release... |
22 March 2011
07:00 GMT |
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Microsoft is more open to open source than ever, and only plans to step up its efforts. This is the message I received from a recent conversation with Gianugo Rabellino, Sr. Director - Open Source Communities at Microsoft. I wrote an article about Rabellino joining Microsoft in January 2011, and I jumped at the chan... |
19 March 2011
07:43 GMT |
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Welcome to the 140th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Fedora 15 Alpha, Gentoo Linux 11.0, Alpine Linux 2.1.5, Vinux 3.0.1, openSUSE 11.4, Joli OS 1.2 and Fusion Linux 14. In other news: Canonical says that there will be no more Ubuntu "Editi... |
14 March 2011
11:50 GMT |
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Welcome to the 139th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Mandriva 2011 Alpha 2, VortexBox 1.8, Kanotix 2011-03, Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 3, Scientific Linux 6.0, Sabayon Linux 5.5 XFCE, LXDE, E17, ServerBase and OpenVZ editions. In other news: Ubunt... |
9 March 2011
05:46 GMT |
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Welcome to the 138th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: openSUSE 11.4 RC2 and Toorox 02.2011 KDE Edition. In other news: Clement Lefebvre announced that Linux Mint 11 will be based on the Ubuntu 11.04 operating system; The Document Foundation ... |
28 February 2011
17:00 GMT |
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Welcome to the 137th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Tiny Core Linux 3.5, Mandriva 2011 Alpha 1, SystemRescueCd 2.0.1, Parted Magic 5.10, Pardus Linux Corporate 2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.9 and Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS. In other news: Canonic... |
21 February 2011
10:15 GMT |
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Kaltura, a company focusing on online video and providing an open-source platform for web video, has announced that it has raised $20 million in venture capital funding, it's biggest round yet. Kaltura will use the money to continue to fund its fast growth of the past year or so. Nexus Venture Partners lead the ... |
15 February 2011
12:21 GMT |
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Welcome to the 136th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Sabayon Linux 5.5 CoreCDX and SpinBase Editions, SimplyMEPIS 11.0 Beta 2, Frugalware 1.4 and PureOS 3.0. In other news: VMware and Zimbra releases Zimbra Collaboration Server 7.0; Adobe ... |
14 February 2011
13:11 GMT |
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Welcome to the 135th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 2 (Natty Narwhal), Debian 6.0 (Squeeze), aptosid 2011-01 and ArtistX 1.0. In other news: Canonical announced that the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud operating system will come... |
7 February 2011
13:21 GMT |
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eBay has made its first steps towards becoming involved with the open source world with the launch of a dedicated website and the release, in beta, of Tumeric, a service-oriented architecture platform used internally by the site. It's the first big project the company has released as open source, but it will not... |
4 February 2011
13:01 GMT |
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Those looking for a platform to mange huge data sets on a large scale will have an easier time choosing, Yahoo has announced that it will be dropping development on its own Hadoop version and instead will start working together more closely with the Apache community and fully supporting Apache Hadoop. The community-d... |
2 February 2011
10:24 GMT |
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Welcome to the 134th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Fedora 14 for IBM System z 64-bit, Sabayon Linux 5.5 and Mandriva 2011 Technology Preview. In other news: The Document Foundation released the final and stable version of the LibreOffice ... |
1 February 2011
12:31 GMT |
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Gianugo Rabellino is a name that’s bound to already be familiar to those in open source communities around the world, and one that will become even better known in the future.
Last year, Jean Paoli, Microsoft’s general manager for Interoperability Strateg, announced that Rabellino was relocating from... |
29 January 2011
05:00 GMT |
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A few minutes ago, the Document Foundation company launched the final and the first stable release of the LibreOffice open source office suite for Linux, Windows and Macintosh platforms.LibreOffice 3.3.0 is finally here (see download links at the end of the article), available for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures... |
25 January 2011
07:06 GMT |
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Welcome to the 133rd issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Clonezilla Live 1.2.6-59, Pardus Linux 2011 and Calculate Linux 11.0. In other news: Mandriva announced that it will provide an educational solution for Schools and OEMs; Oracle updated it... |
24 January 2011
10:04 GMT |
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Steven Shiau announced earlier today, January 18th, the immediate availability of a new stable release of his system-cloning Linux distribution, Clonezilla Live 1.2.6-59.Clonezilla Live 1.2.6-59 is powered by Linux kernel 2.6.32-30, and it introduces a couple of important bugfixes, as well as many enhancements and ch... |
18 January 2011
06:54 GMT |
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Welcome to the 132nd issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: DEFT Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 and Parted Magic 5.9. In other news: The PC-BSD development team has released the PC-BSD 8.2 RC1 operating system to testers; the final version... |
17 January 2011
14:48 GMT |
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A new initiative from Microsoft is set up to streamline the integration of open source libraries within .NET projects as much as possible. The Redmond company even took the first step in the right direction with the introduction of NuGet. Essentially, with NuGet, the software giant is providing a free, open source,... |
17 January 2011
07:21 GMT |
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Amarok 2.4.0 has finally landed, after many months of development. It's been close to a year from the previous major Amarok release and there are plenty of things to like in the fresh Amarok 2.4.0 "Slipstream." Along with the expected performance improvements and bug fixes, new features like transcoding support,... |
17 January 2011
06:49 GMT |
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The PC-BSD Team has prepared another testing release of the upcoming PC-BSD 8.2 operating system, now based on FreeBSD 8.2 RC1.PC-BSD 8.2 RC1 features KDE Software Compilation 4.5.4, X.Org 7.5, Firefox 3.6.13, Pidgin 2.7.7, various improvements, lots of updated packages and a couple of bug fixes."The PC-BSD Team is p... |
11 January 2011
10:46 GMT |
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Welcome to the 131st issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly for 2011!
The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Puppy Linux 5.2, SimplyMEPIS 11.0 Beta 1, Superb Mini Server 1.5.5 and wattOS R3. In other news: Canonical, through Matthias Klose announced that LibreOffice will be the default... |
11 January 2011
02:21 GMT |
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Hot on the heels of the latest and final release candidate for the upcoming KDE SC 4.6 comes KDE SC 4.5.5, the current stable release of the popular desktop environment and software compilation. It's strictly a bug-fixing release, so there should be no issues with the upgrade process. With the next major version... |
10 January 2011
04:38 GMT |
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Eariler today, January 5th, none other than Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, proudly announced the release of Linux kernel 2.6.37.Among the new features includes in Linux kernel 2.6.37 we can mention support for PPP over the IPv4 protocol, lots of enhancements to various important file systems, such as EXT4, XFS ... |
5 January 2011
10:45 GMT |
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Welcome to the 130th and the first issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly for 2011!
The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Parted Magic 5.8, Puppy Linux 5.0 Wary Edition, VortexBox 1.7, Grml 2010.12 and SystemRescueCd 2.0.0. In other news: Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of the Russian F... |
3 January 2011
17:01 GMT |
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Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, signed a government order for the transition of federal executive bodies and agencies of the federal budget to use free software between 2011 - 2015.According to the document signed on December 17th, 2010, the Russian government will have to dump proprietary s... |
28 December 2010
09:36 GMT |
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Welcome to the 129th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Chakra GNU/Linux 0.3.0, Mandriva 2010.2, KNOPPIX 6.4.3, Linux Mint Debian 201012, Finnix 101 and aptosid 2010-03. In other news: X.Org Foundation released X.Org 7.6 for holidays; the Ubu... |
27 December 2010
17:01 GMT |
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Welcome to the 128th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Parsix GNU/Linux 3.6r1, Openwall GNU/*/Linux 3.0, PCLinuxOS 2010.12 and Tiny Core Linux 3.4. In other news: Canonical announce that there will be no more PS3 CD images for the upcoming U... |
20 December 2010
16:05 GMT |
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HTPC enthusiasts have something to look forward to this Christmas, XBMC 10.0 "Dharma" has been released. The latest version of the media center open source software originally created for the Xbox comes with a brand new add-on platform along with plenty of other updates like broader codec support and improved hardwar... |
20 December 2010
05:56 GMT |
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Welcome to the 127th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Unity Linux 2010.02, Ultimate Edition 2.8 Lite, Vinux 3.1 and Chakra GNU/Linux 0.3 RC1. In other news: Canonical announced that Ubuntu One Music client for iPhone has support for the new... |
13 December 2010
10:02 GMT |
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While Google is distancing itself from Wave, the project is far from dead. The Apache Software Foundation has now accepted to take the project under its tutelage. Google Wave will become apart of the Apache Incubator program, the first stage in becoming a fully supported project."One of the best outcomes from Novembe... |
7 December 2010
04:25 GMT |
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Welcome to the 126th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Vine Linux 5.2, Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 1 and openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 4. In other news: Red Hat acquires Makara, a cloud platform maker; Oracle released VirtualBox 3.2.12, with lots of improv... |
6 December 2010
15:31 GMT |
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Welcome to the 125th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: BackTrack 4 R2, VortexBox 1.6, Tiny Core Linux 3.3, Chakra GNU/Linux 0.2.4, Ultimate Edition Gamers 2.8 and Quirky 1.4. The video clip of the week shows you a nice tutorial about how to ... |
29 November 2010
08:01 GMT |
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Robert Shingledecker, founder of the Tiny Core Linux project, announced on November 22nd the immediate availability of the Tiny Core Linux 3.3 operating system.The new release, Tiny Core Linux 3.3 brings a lot of bugfixes, updated scripts and applications, and various improvements. Without further introduction, let&#... |
24 November 2010
03:41 GMT |
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Welcome to the 124th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Untangle Gateway 8.0, Unity Linux 2010_02 and SimplyMEPIS 11.0 Alpha 3. In other news: Convirture announced that ConVirt 2.0 is now available in the Ubuntu Partner Repository; new video d... |
22 November 2010
20:01 GMT |
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Packt Publishing just finished announcing their last winner in their 2010 Open Source Awards festivity. Each day in the last week, Packt recognized a project in one of their 2010 Best Open Source Awards categories. Even if for some awards everybody sensed and expected certain projects to win even before the v... |
19 November 2010
14:57 GMT |
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