06.10.08
Posted in News Roundup at 3:37 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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- Press Release – 64 Studio 2.1 ‘A Minha Menina’ released!
64 Studio is a GNU/Linux distribution tailor-made for digital content creation, including audio, video, graphics and publishing tools.
- Release Notes for Linux Mint 5 Elyssa
This is Linux Mint 5, codename Elyssa, based on Daryna and compatible with Ubuntu Hardy and its repositories.
- [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2008-06-09
It has been a busy week for Sugar Labs.
1. Sucrose: On behalf of the Release Team, Simon Schampijer announced Sucrose 0.81.2 (Development Release). Features of this new release include elimination of some platform dependencies, an improved activity-list view, a graphical user interface to the Sugar control panel (including settings for Frame activation delays), and expanded internationalization of Etoys. The next development release is scheduled in two weeks. Thanks to everyone who made this release possible!
- DSL 4.4 Released
- Mandriva 2008.1 Spring Edition : Breath Of Fresh Air
Mandriva always stands one step ahead of other distribution in terms of overall experience.. Though ranked #6 in Distrowatch.. Mandriva features and utilities makes it one of the best newbie friendly distro out there.. The best feature of Mandriva is that the developers try to re master the new release from the scratch..
- How’s Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Doing?
As I reported two weeks ago, Red Hat expects to get an updated to RHEL 4–the 4.7 release, to be precise–out the door on July 21, which will include updates for hardware, bug fixes, and security patches. Red Hat hopes to have RHEL 5.3 ready in January 2009 or so.
- Debian Weekly News – June 9th, 2008
- Debian news : Debian Weather is back
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- GPL: why can’t a lawyer understand it?
- GNewSense, the Present and the Future
- Tuxpaint is fun for kids and adults
- Who Will Rule The New Internet?
In many ways, these companies are technology’s standard-bearers, though their guiding philosophies differ. Google, for instance, advocates an “open” Web and tends to push for open standards and alliances among developers.
- Boy Scouts of America look to open-source community for help
- Video: Firefox 3 Screencast
- Firefox 3: Past, Present, and Future
- Mozilla’s open source phone system
- Open-source Asterisk appliance takes on Nortel
- Interview: John De Goes Introduces a Newly Free Source Code Editor
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- BJP to launch ambitious tech initiative to gain edge in elections
- Opengear Adds Open Source Network UPS Tools to Range of Console Servers
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- Walking Three Tightropes
- Rowgen the full package, IRI CoSort says
- Sun Java CAPS chugs down SOA open source track
- Compiere Releases Open Source ERP Solution Upgrade
- Etelos Adds Open-Source Hosting
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max stirner said,
June 10, 2008 at 8:31 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7444116.stm
PitaGuy said,
June 11, 2008 at 2:36 am
Are we witnessing the end of Microsoft. The giant crumbles under its own weight….