Last seven days of news
Tue 7 Feb 2012
- Perl Data Language gets auto-parallelisation
- New Fedora Project Leader announced
- Trimble Yuma: a rugged Ubuntu-based tablet
- Ubuntu Global Jam looking for event organisers
- Adobe releases beta version of sandboxed Flash for Firefox
- New Linux kernel fixes power-saving issues
- Sandbox applications quickly with KVM or LXC
- Canonical pulls funding from Kubuntu, drops commercial support
Mon 6 Feb 2012
- Apache Commons updates Configuration and Validator
- Joomla! updates close information disclosure holes
Five open source hardware projects that could change the world
- Firefox 11 enters beta, brings add-on sync
- Mozilla wants to push notifications to browsers and devices
- Open source players share their experiences in CC-BY-SA book
- Open Source Initiative affiliates announced at FOSDEM
- KDE Akademy 2012 conference Call for Papers
- Wayland 0.85 soon, 1.0 by end of year
- Google Summer of Code 2012 announced
Sat 4 Feb 2012
Fri 3 Feb 2012
- Linux Mint 12 KDE released
Comment: Unity can't go it alone
- SambaXP 2012 conference call for papers
- Further details of Spark "Plasma Active" tablet revealed
- Komodo IDE 7.0 adds Node.js, LESS and CoffeeScript support
- 90% of Android devices now running 2.2 and later
- Google's Bouncer scans the Android Market for Malware
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Alpha 2 arrives for testing
- Alfresco Enterprise 4 adds a free public cloud option
Thu 2 Feb 2012
Critical PHP vulnerability being fixed - Update
- Zarafa launches git.zarafa.com
- Final GIMP 2.6 series update arrives
- Qt SDK 1.2 now available
- ALMA consortium develops tool chain for embedded multi-core processors
- RAP mobile: an alternative for developing apps in Java
- HTC Android phones expose Wi-Fi passwords to apps
- Twitter's Bootstrap 2.0 tied up
- VP8 decoding gets faster with SDK update
Wed 1 Feb 2012
- The Document Foundation to be established in Berlin
- Microsoft commits to OpenStack and OpenNebula Hyper-V support - Update
- Release of Wayland 1.0 on the horizon
- Mozilla's first Extended Support Release arrives
- Clonezilla live clone system brings enhancements
- The open source behind gov.uk revealed
- Boxee's desktop version to disappear
- OpenShot Video Editor update adds new 3D text animation
- Ryan Dahl steps down from Node.js leadership
- Controversy around Busybox alternative
Mozilla closes critical holes in Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey
- Greg Kroah-Hartman joins Linux Foundation
- Mozilla's Thunderbird reaches version 10.0
Tue 31 Jan 2012
- Firefox 10 arrives bringing CSS 3D transformations - Update
- Ten year support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Open source AWS SDK for Windows Phone
- Debian 7.0 will use 3.2 kernel
- BigCouch 0.4 moved in
- Seventh Libre Graphics Meeting scheduled for Vienna
- Google posts comparison of JavaScript and Dart
- Fedora 17 gets Eucalyptus, OpenStack and hotspot support
- Bid for Mandriva fails
Security hole in Sudo's debug option closed
- PostgreSQL cloud database announced
Pandora's Box 2.0: Opening proprietary code
- Pentaho opens its "Big Data" Kettle
- Debian 6.0.4 brings updates together













