Weekly Wrap-up Dec 1 2006
Since Linuxlookup news isn't updated over the weekends, here is our weekly wrap-up to hold you over till Monday.
Some top stories this week were:
- Wine 0.9.26 Released
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Call for Papers Opens for ApacheCon Europe 2007
The Call for Papers is now open for ApacheCon Europe, to be held May 1-4 at the newly-opened Movenpick Hotel, Amsterdam. The conference will consist of one day of tutorials (May 1) and three days…
IBM Achieves Major "Linux on POWER" Milestone
IBM today announced the delivery of the 2,500th Linux application available for POWER -- extending the flexibility of one of the world’s most pervasive processor architectures. The application,…
Fedora Project Is Hiring
As of today, Red Hat has an open position within the Fedora Project. This is a unique position, which offers the candidate the opportunity to combine strong engineering skills with leadership and…
Open-source group wants educational patent reversed
A legal center is trying to overturn a patent it says threatens three open-source educational projects, a sign of the tension between patent holders and the collaborative programming community.…
When Linux Runs Out of Memory
Perhaps you rarely face it, but once you do, you surely know what's wrong: lack of free memory, or Out of Memory (OOM). The results are typical: you can no longer allocate more memory and the…
Major update of Win4Lin
New Release includes Support for new Linux Distributions such as Ubuntu Edgy Eft
Virtual Bridges, Inc, a provider of desktop and enterprise virtualization solutions for business, announced…
What Linux Needs to Win on Desktop
For the last 15 years, Linux has grown from a small hobby of a university student to a powerful system which is rapidly gaining popularity every year. But unfortunately in majority of cases Linux…
GPL v3 takes shape in Sydney
The Free Software Foundation's (FSF) General Public Licence (GPL) is undergoing its biggest overhaul in 15 years and local members of the free software community are participating in the…
Human Rights OSS Provides Uncensored Internet to Countries like China
Once a unfettered forum for global communications, the Internet is today under siege.
Upwards of forty countries now censor Internet traffic. Most of this censorship takes place in secret…