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7 October 2008
Rallying call for late Debian 5.0

A rallying call to Debian users has been made after Debian 5.0 misses its September release window more…

7 October 2008
Kernel Log: problem with e1000e bypassed, Morton praises Btrfs

The latest pre-release versions of 2.6.27 protect the non-volatile memory of Intel networking chips from accidental overwriting; Andrew Morton calls for btrfs to be integrated in Linux 2.6.29; news from the Netfilter developers more…

6 October 2008
OpenSuse 11.1 second beta

OpenSuse developers release a new beta version patching the e1000e issue which had been disabling network adapters and updating a number of packages in the distribution more…

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6 October 2008
Mono 2.0 adds LINQ and C# 3.0 support

Version 2.0 of the open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET has been released, with more .NET compatibility. more…

Features

7 October 2008
Community Live - Google Code Jam, European Semifinals

Google's Code Jam, a competition which tests the ability of developers to solve problems, is in its European semi-final stage more…

26 September 2008
Community Live - Google Open Source Jam

Google have been holding small open source jams at their London Google Engineering Office for nearly a year now. Heise online UK went along to see how it worked more…

26 September 2008
Opinion: Linux Foundation's misguided attacks on Solaris

The Linux Foundation has taken to attacking Sun, a member of the Linux Foundation, and Solaris in a misguided attempt to promote a future of just Linux and Windows more…