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Gentoo Will Celebrate 10th Birthday With LiveDVD

Last year Gentoo canceled their 2008 release plans to focus on putting out just one release per year, while in years past they had put out as many as four releases per calendar year. There has not been a new official release of Gentoo since July of 2008, albeit they are one of the distributions to use...

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First open source Symbian software released

Posted by jfeedor | Posted in OpenSource | Posted on 11-07-2009

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The Symbian Foundation has released its first open source software package, the first step in the organization’s plan to eventually open source the entire Symbian mobile operating system. The Symbian Foundation was set up by in June 2008 by Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, NTT DoCoMo, Texas Instruments, Vodafone, Samsung, LG and AT&T to oversee the development of the Symbian OS as an open source platform, licensed under the Eclipse Public Licence (EPL). The OS had previously been developed as proprietary software by the Symbian Foundation.

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Yellow Dog Linux 6.2 released

Posted by jfeedor | Posted in OpenSource | Posted on 01-07-2009

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The Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) developers have announced the release of version 6.2 of their PowerPC distribution that runs on the Sony PlayStation 3 and other computers with Cell processors, including IBM’s Cell blades. The new release upgrades the 64-bit Linux to 2.6.29 and includes components like IBM’s Cell SDK version 3.1.0.1, as well as OpenOffice 3.0 and Firefox 3.06.

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