Linus Torvalds has closed the merge window for Linux 4.3 by releasing Linux 4.3-rc1 a day earlier than the normal release cycle. Torvalds released the 4.3-rc1 in just under 15 days after…
Category: Open Source
Linux Mint 17.1 ‘Rebecca’ released
The team behind Linux Mint has released their latest distribution – Linux Mint 17.1 ‘Rebecca’ – as a general release making it available for everyone to download. Dubbed as a long term…
Microsoft .NET framework opensourced; Visual Studio Community 2013 is now free
Microsoft has taken a huge step to prove that it is slowly moving towards openness by open sourcing its .NET framework and providing Visual Studio Community 2013 for free to all developers….
Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn released
Canonical has officially released Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn as per schedule and is available for download through Ubuntu’s mirrors. Ubuntu 14.10 brings with it lot of updated packages with Linux 3.16 kernel…
It has been 10 years since Ubuntu 4.10. Happy Birthday Ubuntu!
Success of a Linux distribution can’t be guaranteed even after quite a few releases, but in case of Ubuntu Mark Shuttleworth had something that no one had to offer. 10 years have…
Linux 3.18-rc1 released one week early
Linus Torvalds has released Linux 3.18-rc1 in two weeks post Linux 3.17 release instead of previously announced three weeks. Explaining the reason behind the early release, Torvalds revealed that he managed to…
Linux 3.18-rc4 is ‘pretty calm and small’
Torvalds continues his Sunday rc release cycle
Linux 3.17-rc2 released on Linux’s 23rd anniversary
The Kernel guru deviated from the standard Sunday release cycle for sentimental reasons.
Linux 3.17-rc1 released
The latest kernel seems to be smaller compared to its predecessors and doesn’t contain huge architecture changes.
Linux 3.16 final released; Linux 3.17 merge window timing ‘sucks’
Linux Kernel Summit, LinuxCon and other Linux Foundation events may force Torvalds to extend the Linux 3.17 merge window
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 has changed its name yet one more time – possibly the last time!
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 way Torvalds will release Linux 3.16 final next itself.
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’.
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.
Linux 3.16-rc3 released
This time Torvalds didn’t miss the Sunday schedule and the rc release is back on track.