The KDE Community has announced the immediate availability of "Codename", (a.k.a KDE 4.1.2), another bugfix and maintenance update for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. Codename is a monthly update to KDE 4.1. It ships with a basic desktop and many other packages; like administration programs, network tools, educational applications, utilities, multimedia software, games, artwork, web development tools and more. KDE's award-winning tools and applications are available in more than 50 languages.

BROOMFIELD, Colo. – The Open Source Census has said that in just six months more than 300,000 open source package/project installations have been discovered.

“If you went back two years, and using the Linux kernel engineer as an example, for a lot of the positions the low end of the range might be $100k, and at the high end of the range companies had a hard time breaking the $120k barrier – maybe they’d get up to $125k,” Marinaccio says.
“Now you see the low end of the range is generally $120k. The upper range can push up to that $140k, $150k area,” he says. “You have probably seen, on average, at least a 10 to 15 percent increase over the last two years, in some cases higher.”

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The Linux Foundation has announced the creation of LinuxCon, a new annual technical conference that will be produced in the spirit of open source development — for the community, by the community. The Foundation today is also announcing the details for important Linux events including its annual Collaboration Summit and the Kernel Summit.

"The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do," he said. "The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?"

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New York – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of groups representing both consumers and industry filed an amicus brief Friday in the first major lawsuit since MGM v. Grokster against a creator of peer-to-peer (P2P) filesharing software, warning that the case has profound implications for the development of new software and hardware.

In future releases, Gentoo will focus on a more back-to-basics approach that will give you up-to-date install media on a regular basis and make much better use of our human resources. The Gentoo team is looking into automated weekly builds of the minimal CDs and stage tarballs as well as maybe an annual LiveCD release. Gentoo will provide updates as they decide on the details of this new approach.

Prof. Avishai Wool and his graduate student Ohad Ben-Cohen of Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Engineering are taking a different approach. They recently unveiled a unique new program called the “Korset” to stop malware on Linux, the operating system used by the majority of web and email servers worldwide. Prof. Wool’s technology puts a new spin on Internet security, and once it reaches its full potential it could put anti-virus software companies out of business. The research was presented at the Black Hat Internet security conference in Las Vegas this summer.

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LONDON – Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, is asking users of Ubuntu Server edition just exactly how they are using it and in what kind of organizations.

Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.24, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop environment and of its developer platform. Released on schedule, to the day, GNOME 2.24 builds on top of a long series of successful six months releases to offer the best experience to users and developers.

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