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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

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 119

Welcome to the 119th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Super OS 10.10, SystemRescueCd 1.6.2, Parted Magic 5.6, Ubuntu Privacy Remix 10.04r1 and Tiny Core Linux 3.2. In other news: The Ambiance and Radiance themes for Google Chrome were updat...

18 October 2010
06:35 GMT

Microsoft Is Open to Open Source

Microsoft, once the anti-open source poster child, says that the company has evolved as the world changed and that it is now committed to openness. Michaela Kraft, Open Source Strategy Lead Western Europe for Microsoft, notes that the Redmond company is doing nothing more than tailor itself to customers. The overall...

12 October 2010
11:04 GMT

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 118

Welcome to the 118th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 2, ArchBang 2010.10, Calculate Linux 10.9 and Ubuntu 10.10. In other news: The KDE Project announced KDE Software Compilation 4.5.2; Softpedia presented the featu...

11 October 2010
10:59 GMT

KDE Software Compilation 4.5.2 Released

The KDE team has just announced the maintenance release to the KDE 4.5 Software Compilation. KDE SC 4.5.2 is a minor update, focusing on bug fixing and updated translations.KDE SC 4.5.2 is the second in a series of monthly bug fixing releases to the KDE Software Compilation 4.5 series and it brings various ...

5 October 2010
14:48 GMT

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 117

Welcome to the 117th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Fedora 14 Beta, Sabayon Linux 5.4, Ubuntu 10.10 RC and CRUX 2.7. In other news: Linux Mint 7 reaches end-of-life; the final version of the GNOME 2.32.0 desktop environment brings new feat...

4 October 2010
10:38 GMT

The CodePlex Foundation Becomes the Outercurve Foundation

Microsoft's spinoff, known as the CodePlex Foundation, has now been renamed the Outercurve Foundation, in an attempt to help reduce the confusion that existed between the Foundation and the open-source repository named CodePlex.com.The open-source foundation supported by Microsoft in 2009, decided that, at a yea...

29 September 2010
09:27 GMT

Choose the Best Open Source CMS for 2010

The nominee list for the 2010 Open Source Awards from Packt Publishing is out and a few surprises are on it. The awards, rebranded from Best Open Source CMSs to contain a few more categories alongside CMSs like e-commerce applications, JavaScript libraries and graphic software, follows the classical pattern seen in ...

28 September 2010
08:45 GMT

RIM Intros BlackBerry Web Application Platform

The first day of the BlackBerry DEVCON 2010 conference was a pretty busy one, with quite a few announcements coming from Research In Motion, including the new BlackBerry PlayBook, or various tools for developers, such as the BlackBerry WebWorks, a next-generation web-based development platform.According to the Canad...

28 September 2010
02:56 GMT

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 116

Welcome to the 116th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: VortexBox 1.5, Quirky 1.3, ArchBang 2010.09 and Clonezilla 1.2.6-24. In other news: Former Mandriva employees launch Mageia, a Mandriva Linux fork; Canonical demonstrates context-aware u...

27 September 2010
08:01 GMT

Quirky 1.3 Is Available for Download

Barry Kauler proudly announced last night (September 22nd) the immediate availability for download of the Quirky 1.3 lightweight operating system.The new Quirky 1.3 release comes with a new Linux kernel, lots of updated packages, a new wallpaper created by "stu90," and some important bugfixes."This is built from the ...

23 September 2010
07:00 GMT

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 115

Welcome to the 115th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: aptosid 2010-02, Superb Mini Server 1.5.3, Toorox 09.2010 GNOME Edition and Trisquel 4.0 LTS. In other news: Deluge 1.3.0 brings lots of new features in a tiny and lightweight BitTorrent...

20 September 2010
07:01 GMT

Deluge 1.3.0 Officially Released

The team behind the popular Deluge open source BitTorrent project, has announced a few hours ago the immediate availability for download of the highly-anticipated Deluge 1.3.0 release, after many months of hard work to bring you the latest features into a powerful torrent downloader software.Even if it's too ear...

14 September 2010
07:02 GMT

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 114

Welcome to the 114th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Linux Mint 9 Fluxbox Edition, Parsix GNU/Linux 3.6, Linux Mint Debian Edition, Lubuntu 10.10 Beta, Super OS 10.04, Tiny Core Linux 3.1 and SystemRescueCd 1.6.0. In other news: Open-Xchan...

13 September 2010
09:11 GMT

Mercurial Gets $25,000 from CodePlex

Microsoft's CodePlex.com team has donated $25,000 for the development of the Mercurial project, in response to the project leader's recent appeal.Matt Mackall's Mercurial was already added as a choice on CodePlex earlier this year, so CodePlex members have the possibility of using it as a distributed v...

7 September 2010
09:08 GMT

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 113

Welcome to the 113th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 1 and Ubuntu 10.10 Beta. In other news: Phoronix Media released Phoronix Test Suite 2.8; Nvidia released NVIDIA 256.53 Linux display driver, with initial support ...

6 September 2010
07:01 GMT

KDE SC 4.5.1 Is Now Available

The KDE team has released the first update to the latest major release of the software compilation. KDE SC 4.5.1 is a minor update, focusing on bug fixing and more localization."KDE has released a series of updates to the Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Platform. This update is...

31 August 2010
16:27 GMT

Google Wave On Life Support for 2010

News of Google Wave's early demise came as a surprise to most people, but didn't create much of a backlash. Which pretty much proves the point Google was making, Wave just wasn't used that much.Wave was actually seeing quite a bit of activity, just not enough by Google standards. So Google decided to s...

31 August 2010
09:34 GMT

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 112

Welcome to the 112th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: NetSecL 3.0, Linux Mint 9 Xfce Edition, Fedora 14 Alpha, Vyatta 6.1, Zenwalk Linux 6.4 Live and Parted Magic 5.4. In other news: Canonical announced the Ubuntu 11.04 Developer Summit eve...

30 August 2010
07:00 GMT

MessageWire and Solar VPS Now Offer Open-Xchange

MessageWire and Solar VPS are announcing that they are now offering Open-Xchange as an integrated email and collaboration solution. The open-source suite is positioned as an Microsoft Exchange and Sharepoint alternative."Open-Xchange gives us an alternative high-quality offering that we can offer at approximately hal...

24 August 2010
04:02 GMT

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 111

Welcome to the 111th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Trinity Rescue Kit 3.4, Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS, Parted Magic 5.3, Lunar Linux 1.6.5 and Frugalware 1.3. In other news: Canonical announced that Ubuntu 10.10 will support gestures with multi-...

23 August 2010
11:01 GMT

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 110

Welcome to the 110th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: VectorLinux 6.0 SOHO Edition, Untangle Gateway Platform 7.4, Salix OS 13.1.1 and Puppy Linux 5.1. In other news: The KDE Project announced the final and stable version of the highly anti...

16 August 2010
07:11 GMT

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 109

Welcome to the 109th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Karoshi Linux 7.0, MeeGo for IVI 1.0, Parted Magic 5.2, Elastix 2.0, Jolicloud 1.0 and Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 3. In other news: Oracle released a new maintenance version of the popular Virtu...

9 August 2010
06:35 GMT

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 108

Welcome to the 108th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Clonezilla Live 1.2.5-35 and Linux Mint 9 Release Candidate Fluxbox Edition. In other news: Novell announced that openSUSE 11.0 reached End of Life; AMD's ATI Catalyst 10.7 video dri...

2 August 2010
07:21 GMT

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 107

Welcome to the 107th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! Last week, Softpedia took a first look at the newly released Jolicloud 1.0 operating system for netbooks. The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Tiny Core Linux 3.0, Linux Mint 9 Xfce RC, ClearOS Enterprise 5.2 and eBox Platf...

26 July 2010
07:49 GMT

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 106

Welcome to the 106th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Zenwalk Internet Cafe Edition 2.2, openSUSE 11.3, T2 SDE 8.0, Netrunner 2, Linux Mint 9 LXDE and Sabayon Linux 5.3 XFCE and LXDE Editions. In other news: Spotify launches native Linux ap...

19 July 2010
07:30 GMT

NASA and Rackspace Team Up for Open Source Cloud Computing Platform

More and more companies are adopting ‘cloud’ solutions instead of traditional computing infrastructures, but the market is still very much in its infancy. OpenStack, a new initiative from Rackspace and, of all organizations, NASA aims to solidify the market by providing an open and standard offering to en...

19 July 2010
04:18 GMT

Adobe Moves All of Its Open Source Projects to Sourceforge

Adobe has announced that its partnering with Sourceforge to expand its open-source offerings and have more flexibility with the related programs. Basically, all of Adobe’s open-source and standards efforts will be hosted and managed on Sourceforge through the site’s new developer platform. Adobe is actual...

15 July 2010
05:29 GMT

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 105

Welcome to the 105th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Salix OS 13.1 LXDE Edition, Mandriva Linux 2010.1 (Spring), PCLinuxOS 2010.07, SystemRescueCd 1.5.8 and Parted Magic 5.0. In other news: Mozilla released the first Beta version of the up...

12 July 2010
06:01 GMT

Mandriva Finds a Solution to Its Financial Woes

Mandriva’s financial troubles are no mystery to anyone following open-source software. The company behind one of the most popular Linux distributions has been struggling to stay afloat. At one point, it seemed like the only way out was to sell the company, but now it looks like it may have come up with a soluti...

7 July 2010
14:21 GMT

Firefox 4 Beta 1 Is Now Available for Download

Firefox fans have reason to celebrate, the first beta of the upcoming Firefox 4 is here and there’s plenty to like. Firefox 4 Beta 1 is just the first step, of many, towards the final release, but things are shaping up already. The biggest changes will be to the UI, though Linux users won’t notice too man...

7 July 2010
03:39 GMT

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 104

Welcome to the 104th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Linux Mint 9 KDE RC, Dreamlinux 4.0 Beta 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 Beta 2, SystemRescueCd 1.5.7, Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 2, openSUSE 11.3 RC2 and Absolute 13.1.2. In other news: GIMP 2....

5 July 2010
08:01 GMT

IBM Switches to Firefox as the Default Browser

The browser wars are as heated as it’s ever been, but Firefox is still the number one ‘alternative’ browser out there with a significant market share. But getting people to use Firefox is one thing, getting companies to do it is quite another. With plenty of other companies still relying on Int...

1 July 2010
19:11 GMT

KDE Software Compilation 4.4.5 Released

A few minutes ago, the KDE developers announced the fifth maintenance release of KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC) 4.4 branch. Dubbed ceilidh, KDE SC 4.4.5 brings fixes to applications such as Konsole, KMouseTool, KHangMan, KolourPaint, Okular, JuK, KGet, Comic applet, KAlarm, Ark and KFloppy.KDE Software Compilation...

30 June 2010
06:30 GMT

Dreamlinux 4.0 Beta 6 Features New Artwork

The latest beta of the upcoming Dreamlinux 4.0 has landed. Dreamlinux 4.0 beta 6 comes with several updated packages as well as new artwork and faster boot and installs. Dreamlinux 4.0 has been in the works for quite some time now, but the new beta brings it one step closer to the final release. “The highl...

30 June 2010
05:20 GMT

Yahoo Open-Sources Two New Tools for Hadoop

Yahoo, which has already been Hadoop’s largest contributor, is now releasing a couple of related products as open-source projects at its annual Hadoop Summit. The two tools focus on security and workflow with Hadoop and are based in products used internally already by the giant web company. Yahoo operates the l...

29 June 2010
10:27 GMT

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 103

Welcome to the 103rd issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems were announced last week: Superb Mini Server 1.5.2, CrunchBang Linux 10 Alpha 2, Debian 5.0.5 and Sabily 10.04. In other news: VLC 1.1.0 brings amazing features; Nvidia relesease an improved video driver for Linux...

28 June 2010
13:11 GMT

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 102

Welcome to the 102nd issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems were announced last week: Parted Magic 4.11, openSUSE 11.3 RC1, Sabayon SpinBase & CoreCDX 5.3 and SystemRescueCd 1.5.6. In other news: FFmpeg 0.6 brings support for VP8, WebM, HTML5; AMD releases new ATI Linux video dr...

21 June 2010
06:57 GMT


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