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LibreOffice, a free power-packed open source personal productivity suite that provides users with six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs (Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base) is now at version 3.5.4 RC2. When a Release Candidate for LibreOffice is made availa... |
25 May 2012
06:11 GMT |
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LinuxTag, one of the most important Linux and open source software events in Europe, has begun today and will end on May 26th. LinuxTag 2012 is the 18th edition of this conference and it's held at the Berlin Fairgrounds. Users and Linux developers alike will find out all the latest news and innovations there. ... |
23 May 2012
08:18 GMT |
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NVIDIA's GPUs have high parallel processing capabilities, but those capabilities are useless if programs and systems don't have support for them, which means that NVIDIA has had to negotiate special deals and strike partnerships with builders of supercomputers and software makers.
From now on, though, it ... |
9 May 2012
09:51 GMT |
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The GIMP development team unleashed earlier today, May 3rd, the final version of the highly anticipated GIMP 2.8 image editor software. As expected, GIMP 2.8 brings numerous changes, including new and updated features, bugfixes, as well as stability improvements. GIMP 2.8 comes with amazing new features, such as t... |
3 May 2012
08:19 GMT |
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Twitter has started supporting the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and became a bronze sponsor. Twitter uses plenty of open-source tools, many of them fostered by Apache, among them Mesos, an ASF Incubator project.
"Open source is a pervasive part of our culture. Many projects at Twitter rely on open source technol... |
20 April 2012
05:51 GMT |
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On Thursday, Redmond-based software giant Microsoft announced a new wholly owned subsidiary, known as Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., aimed at bringing the company closer to openness, including interoperability, open standards and open source. Jean Paoli, currently the general manager of the Interoperability Stra... |
13 April 2012
07:50 GMT |
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TheCorpora had fun creating the Qbo robots that flirt with each other (and sometimes themselves) and now it is going a step further.
The company doesn't want to make an exclusive business out of them, although it will sell fully-constructed versions (pricing and availability still unknown).
More importantly,... |
5 April 2012
16:01 GMT |
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AMD has announced yesterday, March 20th, that it has released the open source driver code that supports the Radeon HD 7000 "Southern Islands" series graphics cards. Michael Larabel from Phoronix is the first to announce this news, reporting that the video driver brings initial support for DCE6 display watermark, su... |
21 March 2012
03:20 GMT |
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It was about time NVIDIA finally caved and joined the Linux Foundation, seeing as how the open-source operating system really is thriving. The three other companies that joined the consortium at the same time as the Sunnyvale corporation are Fluendo, Lineo and Mocana. "NVIDIA is strongly committed to enabling world... |
8 March 2012
11:16 GMT |
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The PostgreSQL Global Development Group released security updates for all the active versions of their open source object-relational database system. Among the updated variants, 9.1.3, 9.0.7, 8.4.11 and 8.3.18 are the ones worth mentioning.
The security updates address 45 issues that affected the 9.1 variant, inclu... |
28 February 2012
06:44 GMT |
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Google's Summer of Code 2012 program is progressing smoothly, hardly surprising after all of these years, it is now at its eighth edition. After the few initial steps, Google is now announcing that organizations and open source projects interested in mentoring some students for the summer can now apply.
Organi... |
28 February 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Fedora 17 Alpha, a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project, a proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products, was declared gold. According to the developers, Fedora 17 Alpha will be ready for shipping on February 28th, 2012.They've also explained th... |
23 February 2012
10:34 GMT |
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HP is working on releasing its webOS platform under an open source license, and has just announced advancements in the area.
The company has made the February Open webOS releases official, which include extensions to QtWebKit, Isis (web browser), integration with JavaScript core, UI Enyo widgets, and its governanc... |
15 February 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Google's Summer of Code project has been highly successful, by any metric. Students have contributed to countless open source projects through it, gaining experience and a nice thing to put on their CV, while at the same time improving products used by millions of people.The eighth edition of the project has bee... |
6 February 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Firefox is a community-driven, or at least helped, project. Steered by Mozilla, a non-profit, Firefox is nonetheless a community effort and contributions are not only welcomed, they're requested.
Contributing to Firefox though, where contributing means code and not donations or anything else, is hard.
That... |
6 February 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Enyo 1.0 is now available for all webOS devices via Preware, courtesy of a new 3.79MB package.
Thus, the open source Enyo 1.0 app framework arrives on legacy devices as well, since there were some of them that did not receive the software in October when HP pushed it along with Bing Maps.
“Enyo 1.0 is now a... |
4 February 2012
05:32 GMT |
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HP is committed to make webOS open source, and has just announced plans to complete the transition to the new licensing model by fall 2012. September is the month during which the webOS would go open source, the company announced, adding that it had already kicked off the transition process, and that it had releas... |
26 January 2012
05:09 GMT |
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The Desura gaming client now has an open source brother, called Desurium and hosted on Github, licensed under GPL (GNU Public License) version 3. Detailed instructions about how to install and run the open source version of the Desura client on both Linux and Windows platform are also available on the Github page."As... |
23 January 2012
03:44 GMT |
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Softpedia is proud to introduce LibreCAD 1.0, a new and free open source personal CAD application designed to run on multiple platforms, such as Linux, Mac OS and Windows. Initially named CADuntu, it rapidly changed its name to LibreCAD, the first one being based on QCad CE, which in turn was based on the Qt3 library... |
6 January 2012
09:20 GMT |
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Mozilla has announced that it has released a new version of its Mozilla Public License, the license under which Firefox, Thunderbird and most other Mozilla software and source code is distributed.
The MPL 2.0 is the first update to the license in more than a decade. Its scope was to make the text of the license shor... |
4 January 2012
09:21 GMT |
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The first beta for Joomla 2.5 has arrived. The second version to be pushed via the new six-months development schedule, it comes straight after Joomla 1.7 of last summer.
There are plenty of new features, big and small, slated for Joomla 2.5, you can get a full list in the official announcement.
"The Joomla Project... |
23 December 2011
08:41 GMT |
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iPhone hacker Joshua Hill, also known as p0sixninja in Twitter circles, has announced that the Chronic Dev Team’s crash reporting tool created to speed up jailbreak development with the help of the users, is now an open source download.“CDevReporter source is now public on our github github.com/Chronic-De... |
21 December 2011
10:34 GMT |
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By some strange coincidence, HP's announcement that webOS was going open-source has been followed by NVIDIA making a similar announcement about its CUDA development platform. At least, that is to say that NVIDIA has released the source code for the NVIDIA CUDA LLVM-based compiler. This compiler is included i... |
14 December 2011
02:35 GMT |
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WordPress 3.3 is here, it seems that the last release candidate was bug-free so the final version of the popular blogging and content management software is now available for download for everyone. Existing users should also be getting an update notification in their dashboard. A big emphasis with the new release ha... |
13 December 2011
03:30 GMT |
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WordPress 3.3 is one step further to being a reality. The developers hope this is the last step as well, now that the third release candidate has been made available.
If everything goes well at this late stage, WordPress 3.3 should be released to everyone within days, meaning that it should be powering all of your f... |
12 December 2011
04:29 GMT |
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It was a long time coming, but HP finally took a decision in regards to the webOS operating system, the TouchPad tablet and any potential tablet plans. In a move that may not have been so easy to foresee, HP decided to turn webOS into an open-source software. This is beyond any doubt, as the company made an offic... |
10 December 2011
05:19 GMT |
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webOS, the highly appealing mobile operating system that Palm made official back in 2009, is becoming open source, HP has just announced.
The platform was doomed almost from the start, as Palm did not have the necessary resources to support its development, and appeared to have been sent to the graveyard earlier... |
10 December 2011
04:47 GMT |
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The R programming language, which is used in particular for statistical data analysis and visualization, now supports 64-bit integers, a limitation that has so far hindered some uses of the language.French developer Romain François is responsible for the new feature. Rather than building a new data type from s... |
25 November 2011
13:21 GMT |
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There was a time when open source technology was the poor man's solution. It enabled startups to get going, but real companies paid for their software. That time has long gone. The generation of companies built on open source technology changed the mindset. Now only the companies stuck in the past are not using... |
25 November 2011
09:26 GMT |
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The latest update to Parted Magic has arrived and it's once again playing with the version number/scheme. This newest release is dubbed Parted Magic 2011_11_24, the previous one was Parted Magic 11.11.11 and the one before that was Parted Magic 6.7.
But it's not just the version number that's changed,... |
25 November 2011
05:31 GMT |
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If you ever used a commercial calorimeter you pretty much know how much trouble these rather expensive devices can put you through when it comes to getting proper support for them, so an independent developer set out on a quest to build an open-source calorimeter.The device is called the ColorHug and according to it... |
14 November 2011
11:35 GMT |
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Packt Publishing completed another edition of their annual Open Source Awards festivity, by announcing this year' winners.Since early August they've been taking nominations and holding voting stages and now all the votes have been counted and the final results are in.This last week, from Monday till Friday,... |
11 November 2011
11:11 GMT |
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OpenMAMA, a middleware agnostic project, enables users to embrace new middleware technologies and applications as the market changes, will be hosted by The Linux Foundation.Bank of America Merrill Lynch, EMC, Exegy, Fixnetix, J.P. Morgan and NYSE Technologies will form the Steering Group to collaborate on OpenMAMA, i... |
1 November 2011
11:20 GMT |
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Google has always said that the latest version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), will be open source. Of course, Android has always been open source, so that may seem a bit redundant. But Google didn't release the source code for the tablet-oriented Honeycomb version of Android and never will.
It said that ... |
21 October 2011
07:25 GMT |
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The Free Game Alliance, an initiative created by Atomic Blue, the makers of PlaneShift, has just been announced. The Free Game Alliance is a collection of five games: PlaneShift, MegaGlest, Xonotic, Rigs of Rods and The Battle of Wesnoth. They cover a lot of genres like first person shooters, a real time strategy gam... |
19 October 2011
08:20 GMT |
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Portable OpenCL, an open source implementation of the OpenCL standard which can be easily adapted for new targets, has just been released. One of the goals of the Portable OpenCL project is improving performance portability of OpenCL programs, thus avoiding the need for target-dependent manual optimizations. A "nati... |
18 October 2011
04:14 GMT |
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The web is more dependent on JavaScript than ever. And the coding language is spreading more and more beyond the web. There are some that are calling for an alternative, but JavaScript is not going anywhere any time soon.
But as more complex projects rely on JavaScript, there is a need for better testing and debug... |
30 September 2011
10:43 GMT |
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Google has open sourced a very interesting tool that it's also making available as an Android app. The tool, dubbed Custom Maps enables users to take a photo of a real world map, of any kind, sync it with Google Maps and then use it as a GPS map, the same they would use Google Maps.
The idea is quite simple, ... |
29 September 2011
09:11 GMT |
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Google has announced that it's released an updated version of its open source Google update tool. The tool is used internally by the company for several of its Windows desktop software, but the code is available under very liberal Apache license.Now, Google has released the latest version of the tool, codenamed ... |
15 September 2011
14:31 GMT |
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A few days late, the second GNOME 3.2 beta build has arrived. Codenamed GNOME 3.1.91, the second beta continues to fix the remaining bugs and puts the finishing touches on the upcoming stable release, slated for the end of the month.
Major updates in GNOME 3.1.91 (3.2 Beta 2) include the fact that core modules dep... |
12 September 2011
08:20 GMT |
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The Oracle - Google patent lawsuit is great fodder for sensationalist headlines and some of the recent developments are quite interesting, like the fact that a Google engineer admitted that he had access to Sun (now part of Oracle) Java code when writing Google's version.
Less shocking and revealing, despite ... |
8 September 2011
09:40 GMT |
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A recent request, in which the United Kingdom government was forced to reveal the large sums of money spent on proprietary software, shows that the time for open source applications has come.As V3 tells us, most Whitehall departments spend millions of pounds on programs that in some situations can be acquired for fr... |
6 September 2011
08:21 GMT |
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It's hard to deny that open source, as an idea, has left a big mark on many of the big or up-and-coming web companies of today. Facebook, Twitter and many others used open source technologies to get started quickly and later moved to release their own open source tools, once they had the time and resources to de... |
22 August 2011
10:40 GMT |
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Twitter, like many of the new tech superstars relies heavily on open-source technology and, in return, has open-sourced a number of its projects. Facebook is another prime example, though on a larger scale.Twitter announced last week that it will be open-sourcing a massive, real-time data processing technology dubbed... |
8 August 2011
09:30 GMT |
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Welcome to the 155th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Parted Magic 6.3, Sabayon Linux 6 Core Editions and Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 2. In other news: Canonical changed the release schedule for the upcoming Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) by delaying... |
9 July 2011
19:01 GMT |
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Welcome to the 154th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: PCLinuxOS KDE 2011.6, Vinux 3.2, Linux Mint 11 LXDE RC and Mandriva 2011 RC1. In other news: The KDE developers unleashed the Release Candidate version of the upcoming KDE Software Compi... |
2 July 2011
19:01 GMT |
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A few minutes ago, July 1st, The Document Foundation company announced the first maintenance release of the LibreOfficeb 3.4 open source office suite software for Linux, Windows and Macintosh platforms, bringing several bugfixes.LibreOffice 3.4.1 is available now (see download links at the end of the article), for bo... |
1 July 2011
06:41 GMT |
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Welcome to the 153rd issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Porteus 1.0 and Sabayon Linux 6.0. In other news: Mozilla officially releases Firefox 5 web browser for Linux, Macintosh and Windows platforms; Canonical updates the Mozilla Firefox web ... |
25 June 2011
19:01 GMT |
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Welcome to the 152nd issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: AV Linux 5.0, Parted Magic 6.2, Salix OS Fluxbox 13.37 and Tiny Core Linux 3.7. In other news: The Fedora Project announced June 24th as the EOL date for the Fedora 13 operating system; ... |
18 June 2011
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Welcome to the 151st issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: SystemRescueCd 2.2.0, Zorin OS 5 and Peppermint OS Two. In other news: The Ubuntu Manual team finally announced the official release of the Ubuntu 10.10 Manual; the Google developers rel... |
11 June 2011
19:01 GMT |
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