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The open source VLC Media Player finally reached version 1.0 on Tuesday. The new version, codenamed Goldeneye, represents over a decade of development. The program offers support for playing practically every kind of video content in existence and has an exhaustive feature set that includes many advanced capabilities. The software first emerged as an academic project [...]  Mozilla officially released Firefox 3.5 on Tuesday. The new version of the popular open source web browser has attracted considerable attention and is already seeing rapid adoption. It was downloaded over 5 million times during the first 24 hours. This falls short of the record-setting 8 million downloads that Firefox 3 had during its first [...] The increasingly competitive browser market has at last created an environment in which emerging Web standards can flourish. One of the harbingers of the open Web renaissance is HTML 5, the next major version of the W3C’s ubiquitous HTML standard. Although HTML 5 is still in the draft stage, several of its features have already [...] SAN FRANCISCO, July 7, 2009 — The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced it has appointed Axel Petrak as its new Director of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Mr. Petrak will work with companies and community members in the region to facilitate collaboration on advancing [...] A Linux developer has published a new kernel patch that provides a workaround to avoid Microsoft’s patents on the FAT filesystem. The patch, which has undergone extensive legal review by patent lawyers, could make it possible to use FAT on Linux without having to pay licensing fees to Microsoft. Microsoft’s recent lawsuit against TomTom, alleging infringement [...] By: Matthew Broersma, ZDNet UK The PostgreSQL project has released version 8.4 of the open source database management software, with more than 290 additions and changes to features. The most numerous updates are for administrators, with new or tweaked administration and monitoring tools and commands, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group said in [...] Jun 24, 2009 Market research firm IDC just finished a study of open source enterprise applications with decision makers in 515 European organizations. The result: open source is undergoing market expansion in business applications. read more –> I’ve ignored this site for a while and it’s time to make it something worth seeing. I’ll try to post interesting information about upcoming events and news, as well as information about Linux consultants here in San Diego. If you have an idea for a post, add a comment and I’ll look into it. Thanks for [...] |
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