September 4th, 2008 by John Hines
Wrapping up the OSCON (Open Source Convention) held in Portland, Oregon on July 21-25, show organizer O’Reilly Media has posted photos, videos, and presentations files. Meanwhile, winners of the 2008 Google-O’Reilly Open Source Awards and the SourceForge.net 2008 Community Choice Awards have also been announced.
September 2nd, 2008 by John Hines
The Debian project will continue to its tradition of naming releases for characters in Pixar’s classic animated movie, Toy Story. With “Lenny” in the final stages of preparation, Project Maintainer Luk Claes has announced that Lenny’s successor will be named for “squeeze,” a three-eyed space alien.
September 2nd, 2008 by John Hines
Google launched an open-source web browser claimed to feature “enhanced stability and security.” Downloadable now for Windows and expected soon for Linux and MacOS, Google Chrome features a new JavaScript engine, a private browsing mode, and tabs whose memory areas are protected from one another.
August 27th, 2008 by John Hines
The Linux Foundation (LF) announced its first summit for Linux end users. The Linux Foundation End User Collaboration Summit runs from October 13-14 in New York City, and will “provide end users a direct connection and voice to the kernel community,” says the LF.
August 27th, 2008 by John Hines
The “DeviceGuru” has posted an installation walk-through and preliminary review of UbuntuLite. Designed for systems as old as 266MHz Pentium IIs, with 192MB or more of RAM, UbuntuLite now uses the new LXDE (lightweight X11 desktop environment), a downsized GNOME alternative aimed at netbooks and nettops.
