openSUSE Connect Beta
As a result of the openSUSE Boosters’ ‘HackMeck‘ two weeks ago at FrOSCoN we are proud to present you with a new beta of openSUSE Connect. Connect is supposed to become the central user database for the openSUSE project. Sounds bland, don”t it? But you know the Boosters, everything we do comes with a grain of spice and Connect is no different. The spice here are a lot of nifty social network features like user profiles, friending, groups, an event calendar and possibly more. Thats possible because on top of the user database we use a Free Software social network framework called Elgg. Elgg will help us to go a step further in one of the most important areas of the openSUSE project: Connecting our community. We do a very good job connecting code at the moment but there is no central place for openSUSE users to mingle, form relationships and...
Packages Available for KDE Platform, Plasma and Applications 4.5.1
Packages for the release of the KDE Software Compilation 4.5.1 are available. Bugs in packaging should be reported to kubuntu-ppa on Launchpad. Bugs in the software to KDE. Users of 10.04 LTS can install it from the Kubuntu Backports PPA. To update, use the Software Repository Guide to add the...
Open health in Guatemala
The FreeMED Software Foundation has been involved with a medical clinic and teaching project in Guatemala for some time. The project, hosted by Pop-Wuj, a non-profit Spanish language school in Xela (Quetzeltenango), Guatemala, hosts a medical clinic for the poor in the city and surrounding pueblos.
Language agnostic web server Mongrel2 1.0 released
Mongrel2 is a language agnostic web server capable of routing web requests to applications written in any one of ten languages...
Tutorial: Best Practices with sudo on Linux
Ubuntu's use of sudo to simplify Linux administration is ingenious, but barely scratches the surface of what sudo can do. Follow along as Yvo Van Doorn of Likewise Software unlocks the powers of sudo.
Tab tweaks land in Chrome Canary
Google adds a new labs feature to its bleeding-edge version of Chrome to make it easier for users to test features that are still in development, but at least partially ready for users to explore.
Unigine Announces Its OilRush Game For Linux
Back in July we reported that Unigine Corp, the company behind the advanced Unigine gaming/3D engine, was working on its own strategy game. This game was supposed to be announced by the end of July, then in private we were told it got pushed back to the middle of August,...
GitHub launches "Pull Requests 2.0"
New features enhance collaboration of the distributed version control system with GitHub's hosted service...
Lightspark 0.4.4 open source Flash player released
The Lightspark project has released version 0.4.4 of its free, open source Flash player, adding support for localisations and ActionScript exception handling.
KDE Software Compilation 4.5.1 Released
The KDE team has announced the release of KDE Software Compilation 4.5.1 less than a month after the release of KDE SC 4.5.0...
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