Mono’s demise bad news for open source
Just when the Mono Project was beginning to gain traction, along comes Sun Microsystems to take the wind from its sails. I can’t help but feel it’s a mixed blessing.
Mono gives Linux…
Novell's "Danaergeschenk"
German is an interesting language, and many of its words have made it into English. Novell's recent deal with Microsoft is begging to add another one: Danaergeschenk. The term translates to "Gift…
Dictation System SDK available for Linux
Philips is the first to offer a cost-effective professional dictation solution to users of the Linux operating system.
A new software development kit (SDK) for the new Philips SpeechMikes (…
Opera fixes freezing with Flash 9
"We would like feedback specifically on any regressions you might notice with plug-ins on Linux. Note that the fixes might not fix all issues with Flash 9 yet, but you should see improvements."…
Red Hat Dismisses Threat Posed by Oracle and Microsoft
Red Hat Inc's executive vice president of worldwide sales, Alex Pinchev, has dismissed the impact that Oracle Corp's entry into the Linux support business could have on Red Hat, insisting Oracle…
openSUSE 10.2 Released
Novell today announced the availability of openSUSE 10.2, the newest version of Novell's award-winning community Linux distribution. OpenSUSE 10.2 was created in full partnership with the open…
Debian Etch frozen
The Debian Release Team announced that the next stable version 4.0, codenamed Etch, has been frozen now. This means that only urgent changes will be done to Etch, in order to get the numbers of…
Beryl 0.1.3 Released
The Beryl Project announces its 0.1.3 release of the Beryl window manager. Release tarballs are already available to maintainers and packages should be hitting your repo soon if they have not…
Weekly Wrap-up Dec 9 2006
Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...
- Southern California Linux Expo Opens 2007 Registration
- Novell…
Open Source App Stacks: More Hype Than Promise?
Vendors are scrambling to offer open source Latest News about open source application stacks as an alternative to integrated sets of proprietary applications that have long locked users into the…