On 4th November 2010, Mr. Mark Shuttleworth provided some guidelines over what Ubuntu will become in the future years. In addition to adopt Unity as an alternative to the upcoming Gnome Shell, with its latest blog post, he added that, in the coming years, the Ubuntu GUI will be modeled over the Wayland display server… Read More

Nominate your favorite open source projects and help them make it to the OSCON!… Read More

shocking news! SUN got acquired by ORACLE, that is.… Read More

debian 5 code name "lenny" was finally released, plus a really short howto switch from debian stable to debian testing (code name squeeze) or unstable (code name sid).… Read More

SUN 's Virtualbox virtualization solution is a respected open source virtualization product, which today received a major update, reaching version 2.1, dated 2008-12-17 (see here for changelog). This new version brings, other than the usual (and abundant) bug fixes, major upgrades for the MAC OS X port, like 64 bit guest OS support and Hardware Virtualization support (VT-x and… Read More

  Great news from Free and Open Source World! As you all may know, Mozilla Foundation Inc. anticipated some time ago the download day event, with the objective to set a new guiness world record, by becoming the most downloaded software on 24 hours (the objective was set at 5 million downloads). Actual numbers seem… Read More