Archive for April, 2011

PC World – Hardly a day goes by in the tech industry without some software package or other getting updated, but the widely celebrated release of Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal” this week has been no ordinary milestone.
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Attachmate now owns Novell and therefore, by extension, also owns SUSE and openSUSE. With Oracle currently doing everything in its power to thoroughly destroy what’s left of Sun’s open source commitments, scepticism abound about the future of SUSE, and more specifically of openSUSE. Attachmate’s CEO has answered some questions about the future of SUSE and openSUSE, and as far as words go, it’s …
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Life in a Linux-less World

Well, well, well, so Linux has turned 20 at last. While we were reading about the inroads Android is making into the mobile market and weeping over the news that Groklaw is about to pack its bags and move on, we began wondering: Just what would the world have been like if Linus Torvalds hadn’t sat down and written Linux?
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SINGAPORE, APRIL 29, 2011— Ahead of its event for users and partners scheduled for May 3-6, Red Hat has released the beta of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating platform’s first update.
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The Debian GNU/Linux project has lost a second developer in the space of eight months.
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