Oh goody!
Becta are once again proving to be a particularly spiky thorn in the side of Microshaft.
You may recall that they reported the evil empire to our OFT (Office of Fair Trading) back in October last year. We’ll today they have announced the... The Open Sourcerer »
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Sizlopedia – Some days ago the first alpha version of the upcoming version of Ubuntu i.e. Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex was announced by Canonical.
Softpedia has got some good screens of this new version some of which I would like to share with all Linux lovers.
Technically we won’t be getting many new features in Ubuntu 8.10 except for [...] read more
24 Jun 2008
Symbian will go Open Source
GoMo News – Rating: massive overreaction to Google Android or what?
The reason why Nokia has acquired the entirety of Symbian has just become clear. It is being thrown into a giant melting pot of Symbian related technologies to create the Symbian Foundation.
Besides the Symbian OS, Nokia is throwing in its Series 60 (S60) platform NTT DoCoMo is contributing [...] read more
20 Jun 2008
Free Java Now Available
iface thoughts – The hype around open sourcing of Java has mostly died down after the announcement. Not many have followed it up. Red Hat had started the IcedTea project to remove the last obstacle in freeing Java. Finally, we have a free Java version (via Simon Phipps) which abides by the Java TCK. Red Hat has bundled [...] read more
Some days ago the first alpha version of the upcoming version of Ubuntu i.e. Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex was announced by Canonical.
Softpedia has got some good screens of this new version some of which I would like to share with all Linux... (posted on 4 Jul 2008 by Sizlopedia)
Identi.ca is an open source implementation of a distributed microblogging platform. There are enough twitter clones but this one is different from others. One of the striking features of this app is that you will have full control of your data, meaning... (posted on 2 Jul 2008 by Technology Bites)
1 Jul 2008
Struggling towards a great Linux desktop
I'm very happy with my Linux desktop. To be precise, I'm very happy with SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) 10 SP2; openSUSE 11, Kubuntu 8.04, Mint 5 and MEPIS 7. I'm also getting fond of Fedora 9. Anyone else see the problem here?
Does anyone see the... (posted on 1 Jul 2008 by Cyber Cynic)
30 Jun 2008
FSM Newsletter 30 June 2008
Hello readers, and welcome once again to Free Software Magazine ‘s fortnightly newsletter, keeping you up to date with all things free software… AND the top 10 FSDaily announcements for this week! Enjoy!
General announcements
Top ten Free Software... (posted on 30 Jun 2008 by Free Software Magazine)
25 Jun 2008
Nokia/Symbian - Enough Hype!
Well that got your attention didn’t it! Don’t get me wrong, I think the announcement yesterday was good news. Symbian has needed to go Open Source for a while.
For one reason it can be a real pain to programme for. I know. I have hired developers, and... (posted on 25 Jun 2008 by GoMo News)
24 Jun 2008
Hotwire: a combined terminal/GUI for GNU/Linux
There is nothing more guaranteed to ignite a bad tempered, incandescent flame war that an outbreak of hostilities between the rival Gnome and KDE camps. Well, except perhaps a slanging match between the champions of the GUI and the command line. Enter... (posted on 24 Jun 2008 by Free Software Magazine)
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