Angolan Government choses Mandriva to develop Information Society
Mandriva and Angola today announce the signature of a broad technical
cooperation agreement.
Angola - a country with strong links with Portugal and Brazil - has
recently celebrated…
Ubuntu 7.10 beta release is approaching
The Ubuntu 7.10 beta release is approaching, scheduled for 27th September (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GutsyReleaseSchedule). Please refer to the milestone overview in Launchpad for a list of…
Palm's First Linux Smartphone Delayed Until Late 2008, Possibly 2009
First, it introduced and then pulled the troubled Foleo Mobile Companion, on the eve of when it was supposed to launch. Now comes word that Palm's first smartphone built on its upcoming Linux…
JackLab 1.0 Released
The JackLab project released the final 1.0 version of the JackLab Audio Distribution (JAD) today after a development period of over eight months. JAD 1.0 is based upon openSUSE 10.2 with the…
iPod Classic Will Be Supported
As recently reported on Slashdot, Apple, in its infinite wisdom, has added a checksum to the iPod database apparently to restrict non-iTunes products (like Amarok via libgpod) from having the…
The $100 laptop now the $188 laptop
The vaunted "$100 laptop" that Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers dreamed up for international schoolchildren is becoming a slightly more distant concept.
Leaders of the…
The GIMP UI Redesign
"The GIMP UI Redesign Team has created a blog to collect ideas for a new design of the most popular image manipulation program. Everyone is free to submit suggestions to be published in the blog.…
Linuxlookup Weekly Wrap-up for Sept 15 2007
Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...
- Microsoft and Novell Open Interoperability Lab
- EVE Online to…
SCO Files for Bankruptcy
The SCO Group, Inc., a leading provider of UNIX software technology and mobile services, today announced that it filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States…
Google welcomes ISO decision on OOXML
"Google welcomes the ISO decision to not approve the fast track of Office Open XML (OOXML) proposed standard DIS 29500 (ECMA 376). Our engineers conducted an independent analysis of the OOXML…