Last month the OpenOffice community made a big decision to break away from Oracle and have formed The Document Foundation. Development for OpenOffice has been going on form about a decade now under Sun Microsystem. However, after Oracle’s acquisition of Continue reading
H Open: “In a reaction to the founding of the Mageia project and to a question posed on the Cooker mailing list, the French Linux distributor Mandriva has commented on its current situation and future plans. The company says the Continue reading
Blender is a free open source 3D modelling and graphics software widely used for making animated movies. Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for all major operating systems under Continue reading
Decentralist: “As Microsoft slowly breaks old compatibility, and Wine continues to improve Windows compatibility. it seems only a matter of time before some Windows programs run better in Wine than in Windows. Last week, I found my own example. Timez Continue reading
Linux.com: ” Firefox 4.0 is still a bit away from final release, but the time to think about switching is now. The Mozilla Project is releasing Firefox 4.0 beta 6 this week, and the current builds are really good. Why Continue reading
NetworkWorld: “He and his team have built an infrastructure that gives everyone their favorite operating system. At his company, he’s running Ubuntu 9.1x on nearly all of the company’s 20-odd servers and Windows XP on the desktops of roughly 80 Continue reading
Royal Pingdom: “Google is doing it. Facebook is doing it. Yahoo is doing it. Microsoft is doing it. And soon Twitter will be doing it. We’re talking about the apparent need of every web service out there to add intermediate Continue reading
H-online: “Mozilla has reportedly stopped issuing security updates for its open source Firefox web browser as it looks into a bug that is causing some users’ systems to crash. According to InfoWorld, the non-profit organisation behind the development of Firefox Continue reading
Linux-Magazine: “The Mozilla Project announced the release of a new JavaScript benchmark that focuses on real world applications and forward-looking applications. Called Kraken, the benchmark addresses the elements of the Web that people often complain about for being too slow. Continue reading
TheRegister: “It is not quite ready for primetime, but with the announcement of OpenIndiana, a so-called spork of Oracle’s OpenSolaris Unix distribution, the server world is getting a familiar, re-opened, and community-developed operating system aimed specifically at data center workloads. Continue reading