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Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 142

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

LibreOffice 3.3.2 Is Now Available for Download

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

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 141

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

Microsoft’s Gianugo Rabellino: “We Are More Open than You Might Think”

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

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 140

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

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 139

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

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 138

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

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 137

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

Open-Source Web Video Platform Kaltura Raises $20 Million

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

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 136

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

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 135

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

eBay Launches Open Source Portal, Releases SOA Platform Turmeric

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

Yahoo Hadoop to Be Discontinued, Merged into the Main Apache Distribution

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

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 134

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

Introducing Microsoft’s Go-To Guy for Open Source Communities

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

LibreOffice 3.3.0 Is Available for Download

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

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 133

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

Clonezilla Live 1.2.6-59 Stable Has Been Released

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

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 132

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

Microsoft Ships Free Package Manager for Open Source Libraries: NuGet

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

Amarok 2.4.0 Adds Transcoding, MusicBrainz Support

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

PC-BSD 8.2 RC1 Is Available for Testing

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

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 131

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

KDE SC 4.5.5 Has Been Released

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

Linux Kernel 2.6.37 Is Available for Download

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

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 130

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

Russia Moves to Linux In 2011

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

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 129

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

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 128

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

XBMC 10.0 Comes with a New Add-on Platform and Better Hardware Acceleration

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

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 127

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

Google Wave Becomes Apache Wave

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

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 126

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

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 125

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

Available Now: Tiny Core Linux 3.3

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

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 124

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

Best Open Source in 2010

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

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 123

Welcome to the 123rd issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Clonezilla 1.2.6-40, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 Beta, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 3 and Linux Mint 10. In other news: Hacker wins $3,000 for open-source Linux d...

15 November 2010
10:29 GMT

Pimcore CMS Wins Most Promising Open Source Project Award from Packt

Pimcore, a Zend-based content management system won this year's Most Promising Open Source Project Award, in the annually competition organized by Packt Publishing.“Winning this Award is a huge boost”, said Dietmar Rietsch, Pimcore founder. “It’s not simply about the money either, it&rsqu...

15 November 2010
10:00 GMT

Hacker Wins $3,000 for Open-Source Linux Driver for the Xbox 360 Kinect

The Kinect controller for the Microsoft Xbox 360 is very interesting gadget. While its purpose is to get more people playing and buying games, those who wouldn't otherwise be interested in gaming, a different set of people is very interested in the device, robotics enthusiasts and electronics geeks who see the p...

11 November 2010
06:58 GMT

Google Refine 2.0 Aims to Clean Up Messy Data Sets

Google has launched Refine 2.0, a new project based on the existing Freebase Gridworks it acquired this summer along with Metaweb. The tool has been renamed Refine and version 2.0 has been released. With Google behind it, the tool is bound to be a lot more visible so many users may only be discovering it now, but the...

11 November 2010
06:06 GMT

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Final Released

Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, proudly announced on November 10th the immediate availability of the final and stable version of the powerful Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating system.The announcement comes right after the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 Beta, on N...

11 November 2010
04:52 GMT

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 122

Welcome to the 122nd issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: SystemRescueCd 1.6.3 and Fedora 14. In other news: Open-Xchange forecasts over 24 million users by the end of 2010; At their Partner Summit, Open-Xchange announced new capabilities for i...

8 November 2010
15:34 GMT

Softpedia Exclusive Interview: Open-Xchange CEO, Rafel Laguna

On November 4th, 2010, took place the worldwide Open-Xchange Partner Summit 2010 event, at the KölnSKY building in Colonge, Germany. Softpedia was on site, invited by Open-Xchange, to cover the entire event.Open-Xchange's CEO, Rafael Laguna, was kind enough to sit down for a few minutes and discuss with us ...

8 November 2010
06:40 GMT

Open-Xchange Adds New Capabilities, Makes New Deals

The second annually worldwide Partner Summit has opened its doors. Hosted by Open-Xchange, in Cologne, Germany, the event will be covered by Softpedia at the invitation of Open-Xchange.Open-Xchange continues to add new functionality to their great product, Open-Xchange Server, by introducing the ...

5 November 2010
11:16 GMT

Open-Xchange Forecasts Over 24 Million Users by the End of 2010

Today, November 4th, takes place the second annually worldwide Partner Summit, hosted by Open-Xchange, in Cologne, Germany. Softpedia is there, invited by Open-Xchange, to cover the event.Softpedia is proud to inform you that Open-Xchange, an Open Source groupware provider, has just announced that its users will incr...

4 November 2010
07:51 GMT

The WebM VP8 Codec SDK Gets a Significant Speed Improvement

Google has now released the first update to its WebM software development kit. This first release brings a significant improvement in decoding performance and better quality encoding. While the open source library has been made available last week, the details of the release as well as Google's detailed plans fo...

1 November 2010
12:57 GMT

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 121

Welcome to the 121st issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Finnix 100, MeeGo 1.1 and Salix OS 13.1.2 KDE Edition. In other news: Mark Shuttleworth announced that Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) will have a revamped interface, based on Unity; At UDS...

1 November 2010
10:41 GMT

Finnix 100 Has Been Released

A few hours ago, Ryan Finnie proudly announced the immediate availability for download of the Finnix 100 Linux-based operating system, after a little more than one year of development.Dubbed Oconto, Finnix 100 drops support for the PowerPC (PPC) architecture, and it's powered by a Debian-based Linux kernel 2.6.3...

28 October 2010
10:08 GMT

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 120

Welcome to the 120th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Linux Mint 10 RC, Ultimate Edition 2.8, Ubuntu Rescue Remix 10.10, and Pardus Linux 2011 Beta. In other news: The new release of Open-Xchange Server brings support for Android devices an...

25 October 2010
07:32 GMT


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