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KDE: one millionth commit in its SVN!

Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 July 2009 13:43 Written by Michele Petrecca Tuesday, 21 July 2009 13:42

KDE announced that the one millionth commit has been made to its Subversion-based revision control system. The 500,000th commit took place on January 19th, 2006, and the 750,000th commit 23 months later on December 18th, 2007. In contrast, only nineteen more months were required to reach the 1,000,000 commit milestone!

Read announce here.

Benchmarks - Fedora, Mandriva, OpenSuSE and Ubuntu.

Last Updated on Saturday, 25 July 2009 16:23 Written by Michele Petrecca Friday, 17 July 2009 16:43

With it being a while since we last compared many Linux distributions when it comes to their measurable desktop performance, we decided to run a new round of tests atop four of the most popular Linux distributions: OpenSuSE, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Mandriva. To see where these Linux distributions are at, we used their latest development releases and then performed all package updates as of 2009-07-15. Following that, we ran an arsenal of tests using the Phoronix Test Suite. From Phoronix.com.

microsoft office 2010 free on web

Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 July 2009 20:40 Written by chna1991 Wednesday, 15 July 2009 15:45

This is an increbible news for us, who are used to listen other things about microsoft!
Microsoft meets the challenges of open source( remember chrome o.s.) and give a free version of microsoft office.
Three versiones are provided: one of them is free on web with based programs(like world, excel and powerpoint)!

Google challenges Microsoft

Last Updated on Tuesday, 14 July 2009 11:24 Written by chna1991 Tuesday, 14 July 2009 11:00

Google have en excellent idea, they develops an operating system: chrome O.S. This is open source and is based on kernel linux. It's not so unexpected, in fact there is chrome browser that offers some features, typical of a platform that aims to work alone: for example it can display the active processes in the system, and so on...
It besides could be a good purpose for the person who have a laptop, because is designed for Netbook.
Could Chrome O.S. rekindle the old flame between linux and windows?

The 2008 GNOME annual report

Last Updated on Saturday, 11 July 2009 23:18 Written by Michele Petrecca Saturday, 11 July 2009 22:51

The GNOME Foundation has put out a glossy, 35-page annual report, available as a .pdf file. There's a lot of information on what has been going on in the GNOME community and budgetary details as well. If you want download it (19MB) click here.

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