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Craigslist Charitable Fund Donates $100,000 to the Perl Foundation
Development of Perl has slowed down considerably over the last decade, with new versions primarily resolving bugfixes, and including minor syntax changes. This donation should be a boost for the Perl Foundation, and should help it revamp the development of the "duct tape of the Internet". Read More »
Wayland is Heading Towards its First Stable Release
If you have not heard of Wayland until today, it is because Wayland has not had any public release of their display protocol. Wayland will replace the X Window System in Ubuntu and Fedora, after its release. Read More »
KDE Enthusiast, Aaron Seigo, Builds Spark, the First Tablet with Plasma Active Pre-installed
The biggest complain that open-source advocates have against Android, is that all the Android development done by handset manufacturers happens behind closed doors. This goes against the true philosophy of Open Source. This Plasma Active based tablet, developed by Aaron Seigo and team, aims to change this scenario. Read More »
Linux Mint Team Releases the First Stable Version of Cinnamon
With this release of Cinnamon, the API and the desktop are fully stable. However, Cinnamon is not the only product that the Mint team has in plan. They want to build a complete desktop environment ecosystem with themes, applets, extensions, user ratings and comments. Read More »
Google’s SPDY Invited to be a Part of HTTP 2.0 Standard
HTTP is an old protocol, and the web has improved by leaps and bounds since then. There could not have been a better time for a new application layer protocol. Read More »