Delhi FOSS event gets growing attention
India's free and open source software (FOSS) thrust is growing bigger. Its annual event, freed.in, has just concluded. And it drew some prominent speakers and serious support from industry.
…KDE Invasion in the Canary Islands
Ubuntu's Fridge is reporting that Kubuntu is taking the Canary Islands. KDE is being installed on all of the school computers in the Canary Islands by the way of mEDUXa and in their universities…
ShipIt will be distributing free copies of Ubuntu 7.10
Canonical's ShipIt service will be distributing free copies of Ubuntu's latest version, 7.10, when it becomes available later this month. You've got nothing to lose, why not try Ubuntu?
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Only 5% of UK firms always choose open source
Only 5% of the 300 IT executives surveyed by Computer Business Review said they always opted for open source whenever possible, while three-quarters said it depended on the individual project. One…
BT Joins Linux Phone Standards Forum
The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum, adding to the growing momentum of standards-based mobile Linux, announced today that BT PLC [LSE: BT Group] has joined the consortium and will participate…
The Novell-Microsoft Wheeler Dealers Speak
Here you'll find an MP3 of a conference sponsored by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council on the Novell-Microsoft deal held in Boston on September 26th, where representatives from…
Flash Player 9 Beta
Adobe Labs features prerelease versions of the Flash Player 9 Update software. The release candidate prerelease is an opportunity for developers and consumers to test and provide early feedback to…
Partnership Extends Linux Foundation's Work With Japanese Developers
The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, and the Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA), a Japanese government research institute…
Microsoft launch campaign worthy of a politician in it's vagueness
Microsoft's latest affront to the Linux community is their "STATE GOVERNMENT SAYS LINUX WAS TOO BIG A RISK" campaign, and I'm sick of them ad-spamming Linux related articles with this piece of…
Pidgin 2.2.1 Released
Mainly just a bug fix release, Pidgin 2.2.1 in available for download. Release notes and download link within.
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=543052