Open Source
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Ravi Mandalia | 1 August 2014
XBMC getting a new name starting version 14 – Kodi
The software has gone through a series of name changes and the team behind the highly popular software...
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Ravi Mandalia | 28 July 2014
Linux 3.16-rc7 released; final may be tagged next week
After a rather bumpy week, things have calmed down to a great extent and if things remain this...
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Ravi Mandalia | 27 July 2014
Linus Torvalds: “GCC 4.9.0 seems to be terminally broken”
Torvalds believes that the compiler shouldn’t have been allowed to ‘graduate from kindergarten’.
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Ravi Mandalia | 21 July 2014
Torvalds releases Linux 3.16-rc6; warns that he may get grumpy if things don’t calm down
The latest release candidate is bigger than its predecessor and Torvalds is none too pleased.
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Ravi Mandalia | 30 June 2014
Linux 3.16-rc3 released
This time Torvalds didn’t miss the Sunday schedule and the rc release is back on track.
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Ravi Mandalia | 23 June 2014
Cisco open sources FNR; the experimental block cipher it claims will protect privacy in cloud
The cipher doesn’t need padding as in case of AES and this could mean that there will be...
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Ravi Mandalia | 23 June 2014
Linux 3.16-rc2 gets a Saturday evening release
Torvalds breaks the Sunday release cycle again – because he is travelling, again.
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Ravi Mandalia | 9 June 2014
Linux 3.15 released
Yet another stable Linux Kernel released with tons of new features.
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Ravi Mandalia | 29 May 2014
Git 2.0 released
Version 2.0 of the popular revision control system has been released after being delayed by a week.
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Ravi Mandalia | 26 May 2014
China working on new Windows-like Linux OS after Windows 8 ban
China wants its citizens to adopt Linux; give away Windows.