Nokia to Offer Qt Under LGPL Licensing
Nokia announces that its Qt cross-platform user interface and application framework for desktop and embedded platforms will be available under LGPL (Lesser General Public License) Version 2.1 starting with the release of Qt 4.5, scheduled for March 2009. ... Read more

Google Creates Open-Source App Engine Project for Exporting Blog Content
Google unveils the open-source Blog Converters project for federating the exchange of data between blogging platforms, including Blogger, MoveableType, WordPress and LiveJournal. Blog Converters is just one facet of a fundamental shift from siloed Web sit... Read more

Hot Open-Source Projects for Enterprise Use
A Palamida survey lists the top 25 open-source projects for enterprises. The survey indicates that organizations view security as a key factor to consider when adopting open-source technology. The 25 top projects represent secure, stable open-source imple... Read more

Red Hat Launches New Maintenance Service
Red Hat has announced a new software maintenance service for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), known as Extended Update Support (EUS). This allows customers to standardize on one RHEL environment for up to 18 months. - Red Hat has launched a new softwar... Read more

IBM Lotus Strategist Sees Linux on Netbooks Making Inroads vs. Windows in 2009
Linux and open source will start to chip away at Microsoft Windows desktop software thanks to their popularity on netbooks, those ultralight, low-cost laptops. IBM Lotus strategy director predicts this as a major trend in 2009, as well as the proliferatio... Read more
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Beardless Bdale
At the 2009 linux.conf.au Penguin Dinner, Bdale Garbee "agreed" to shave his beard if enough funds were pledged toward the cause of protecting the Tasmanian Devil from extinction. On January 22, Linus Torvalds did the honors in front of hundreds... Read more

Ext4 to be standard for Fedora 11, Btrfs also included (heise online)
heise online notes plans to include Ext4 and Btrfs in Fedora 11. "According to current plans, version 11 of Fedora, which is expected to arrive in late May, will use Ext4 as its standard file system. That's what the Fedora Engineering Steering Comm... Read more

Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS released
Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS has been announced. "The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS, the second maintenance update to Ubuntu's 8.04 LTS release. This release includes updated server, desktop, and alternate installation CDs... Read more

Sun Begins Carrying Out Planned Layoffs (eWeek)
eWeek reports on the layoffs at Sun Microsystems. "Sun Microsystems, which revealed on Nov. 14, 2008, that it planned to reduce its global work force by 5,000 to 6,000 employees—15 to 18 percent—began carrying out that dreadful duty Jan. 22. Sun co... Read more

An odd choice to help government with open source strategy (ars technica)
ars technica looks into the Obama administration's choice of former Sun CEO Scott McNealy as an advisor for its government open-source strategy. "Although Obama's interest in open source looks like a promising sign that the incoming government is ... Read more
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Linux.com Login Temporarily Frozen for New Site Launch

9 Android Wear Watches to Take on Apple Watch

Watch Collaboration Summit Live Via Free Streaming Video

Introduction to Docker Compose Tool for Multi-Container Applications

How to Use Your Android Device as a Trackpad on Linux

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Oracle releases VirtualBox 4.1.16
Today Oracle released VirtualBox 4.1.16, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 4.1: The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_ACCESS_DENIED with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247) VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_PAGE_T... Read more

First tarball release of the new GNU Portable Threads Library: nPth version 0.90
The first tarball release of the New GNU Portable Threads Library: nPth version 0.90 has been made. nPth is a non-preemptive threads implementation using an API very similar to the one known from GNU Pth. It has been designed as a replacement of GNU Pth f... Read more

OpenOffice 3.4 Released
The first version of OpenOffice under the governance of the Apache Software Foundation has been released. Apache OpenOffice 3.4 is available for download free of charge. OpenOffice 3.4 features: word processing, spreadsheets, presentation graphics, databa... Read more

Jury in deadlocked on copyright issues in Oracle vs Google???
The copyright part of Oracle’s lawsuit against Google over possible infringement of the Java intellectual property in Android is moving into its final phase and there are indications that, for the copyright part of the lawsuit, the jury might be dea... Read more

Does Android?s open source status make it better in terms of privacy?
Does Android?s open source status make it better in terms of privacy? Find out here.
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Could You Be the Face of Linux?
We've all seen them: on comes a commercial with a young, casually dressed,if somewhat unkempt, young man, and an older, portly man in a very middle-management-esque suit. The younger man announces "I'm a Mac" while the older responds "And I'm a PC," and t... Read more

iPhone Linux!
The iPhone is certainly known for its elegance and beauty, but around these parts it's also known for being closed and proprietary. The Open Source community does a little cheer when we hear about jailbreaking the iPhone -- but soon we'll have even more ... Read more

Defaulting to the Dreaded MS Office Format in OpenOffice.org
Linux Journal's Shawn Powers shows you how to change the default file type in OpenOffice.org. Thanks to our sponsor: Silicon Mechanics read more

Fixed width vs. Flex width?
* I greatly prefer visiting fixed width web sites. * I greatly prefer visiting flex width web sites. * I don't care all that much either way.

How-to Save a Flash Video
Linux Journal's Mitch Frazier demonstrates how to save a local copy of a flash video when you don't have a save option. read more
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OWASP CycloneDX Launches SBOM Exchange API, Standardizing SBOM...
OWASP CycloneDX launched a BOM Exchange API aimed at solving a critical component necessary to operationalize software bill of materials (SBOM). The API standardizes how BOMs are published and...(PRWeb May 11, 2022)Read the full story at https://www.pr... Read more
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