Instead of releasing the final version of Linux 3.14, Linus Torvalds has released Linux 3.14-rc8 this week. “I delayed things a day from my normal schedule, hoping I’d feel more comfortable doing…
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Linux 3.14-rc6 released; Torvalds hints at rc8, rc9 if things don’t calm down
Linux 3.14-rc6 has been released and with two more weeks (if things go well) to go before the final release, Linus Torvalds has hinted at the possibility of an rc8 and even…
The Raspberry Pi celebrates 2 years, 2.5m units sold with open source graphics driver competition
The Raspberry Pi, which was first put up for sale on February 29, 2012, has completed two years and has sold over 2.5 million units during the period. Announcing the milestone and…
Linux 3.14-rc1 announced; Torvalds says codename has nothing to do with ‘Pi’
Linus Torvalds has announced closure of Linux 3.14 merge window and with that released Linux 3.14-rc1 just before a few hours. Torvalds revealed that the kernel’s codename has nothing to do with…
UK Gov planning to abandon Microsoft Office
The UK government is planning to abandon expensive proprietary software including Microsoft Office in favour of open source alternatives. According to reports around £200 million is being spent on Microsoft Office alone…
FreeBSD 10.0 released, finally
After months of delays, and additional RC releases, FreeBSD 10.0 has been officially released today. We spotted the release builds on FreeBSD FTP servers yesterday. “The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased…
Linus Torvalds releases Linux 3.13; opens Linux 3.14 merge window
Linus Torvalds has announced Linux 3.13 as anticipated after adding in an extra rc release last week. The final release doesn’t bring in anything new except for a few fixes and the…
FreeBSD 10.0 release builds spotted
FreeBSD 10.0 is finally available for download after a series of delays and an additional rc build. From the looks of it FreeBSD 10.0 is currently available for all the four architectures,…
Linux 3.13-rc8 released; final most likely to release next week
Linus Torvalds has released Linux 3.13-rc8 as anticipated, while revealing that the final release should most probably happen next week. The latest rc doesn’t come with anything interesting and packs usual drivers…
Red Hat, CentOS join forces for speedier open source innovation
CentOS and Red Hat are joining forces to build a new tier within the Red Hat offering that will drive innovation by adopting next-generation open source technologies. CentOS, which is an independent…
Linux 3.13-rc7 announced
Linus Torvalds has announced Linux 3.13-rc7 noting that even though the things are calming down, he will release rc8 before releasing the final one. The outgoing week was relatively a lot quiet…
Emacs needs to move to Git as bzr is dying says ESR
Eric S. Raymond, the co-founder of Open Source Initiative, has recommended that Emacs should move to another version control system like GitHub git as bzr is dying. In a mailer, Raymond highlighted…
‘Fairly small’ Linux 3.13-rc6 released
Linus Torvalds has announced Linux 3.13-rc6 kernel – ‘fairly small’ when it comes to number of commits owing to the fact that it was released over a holiday week. The latest release…
Linux 3.13-rc5 released
Linus Torvalds has announced Linux 3.13-rc5 indicating that Linux 3.13 will most likely see a rc8 release as well considering the dates on which LCA is being organized this time. Torvalds seems…
Munich declares open source project a success
Munich has declared that its decade old move to open source software is finally over and that it is a huge success with over 15,000 systems running Linux and OpenOffice. Back in…