Posted May 10, 2011, 7:30 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software
Canonical Founder Mark Shuttleworth has announced that Canonical's goal is to get 200 million Ubuntu users in four years. He made the declaration while delivering the keynote at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Budapest, Hungary. "We've set the bar for…
Posted April 10, 2011, 2:32 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web, Industry News
Groklaw, an award-winning website covering legal news related to the open source software community, has announced that it is shutting down on its eight birthday: May 16, 2011. The site will remain online, but it will stop publishing new articles…
Posted March 8, 2011, 2:41 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software, The Web
Adobe has announced a beta release of Flash player 10.3 on Adobe Labs. You can download it directly for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Flash Player 10.3 beta introduces a number of features including enhanced privacy controls, VoIP tools and analytics.
Posted February 9, 2011, 11:01 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software
Adobe has released Flash Player 10.2, introducing Stage Video, a new API that delivers high performance video playback across platforms and browsers. The new version also offers everything introduced in the beta, including custom native mouse cursors, multiple monitor full-screen…
Posted October 12, 2010, 12:33 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software, Microsoft
The nonprofit Linux Foundation, in partnership with Yeoman Technology Group, has published a new report titled Linux Adoption Trends: A Survey of Enterprise End Users that shows Linux is growing at breakneck speed. According to the report, which is based…
Posted September 15, 2010, 4:21 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web, Software
Adobe has released a 64-bit preview version of its Flash player plug-in (codenamed Square) for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Better late than never, right? Make no mistake: Adobe choosing to demo it on the day that Microsoft releases its IE9…
Posted August 23, 2010, 1:37 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Gaming, Software
Evidence of a Linux Steam client surfaces every few months, sprinkling hope throughout the neglected penguin gaming community. The proof is usually limited to a trace of Linux code in Valve's software or a seemingly related job listing. A pending…
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