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…
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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…
FreeBSD 10.0-rc4 released, final build expected soon
FreeBSD 10.0-rc4 for major architectures including amd64, i386, powerpc, and sparc64 architectures has been released with an expectation that it will be the final rc build of the 10.0-release cycle. The latest…
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…
‘Big’ Linux 3.13-rc4 released by Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds is back to his Sunday release cycle and has announced the release of Linux 3.13-rc4 revealing that he isn’t happy with the latest RC. Linux 3.13-rc4 packs networking, GPU, USB,…
Fedora 20 delayed till December 17
Fedora 20, originally slated for a November 26 release, has been delayed again till December 17 because a number of bugs still remain unfixed – major ones related to Anaconda component of…
Opus Audio Codec 1.1 released
Opus – the totally free, open and royalty-free audio codec – has finally received its version 1.1 stable after being in development for months. The new version of Opus brings with it…
Valve, HSA Foundation, Cloudius join the Linux Foundation
Valve has joined the Linux Foundation – a move that shows the company’s ever increasing love the Linux and one which will help it to take gaming on Linux to the next…
CentOS 6.5 released
CentOS project team has released version 6.5 of CentOS Enterprise Linux for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures marking the fifth release in the 6.x series. Some of the new features in CentOS…