After two Release Candidate versions, VLC 2.1.0 is finally here, bringing numerous improvements, new features and bugfixes, which make it one of the most powerful, reliable and stable media player applications on the Internet. Among other features of VLC 2.1.0, we can mention partial support for Qt5.0, support for UPnP A/V subtitles, support for multiple … Read more
(Reuters) – A Spanish association representing open-source software users has filed a complaint against Microsoft Corp to the European Commission, in a new challenge to the Windows developer following a hefty fine earlier this month. The 8,000-member Hispalinux, which represents users and developers of the Linux operating system in Spain, said Microsoft had made it difficult for users of computers sold with its Windows … Read more
Canonical is releasing Ubuntu operating systems like clockworck every April and October, but it seems that it puts an unnecessary strain on the developers and the end product is not as good as it should be. The development process is about to change, at least this is what community manager, Jono Bacon, is telling us. … Read more
ZevenOS-Neptune, a Linux operating system based fully upon Debian Testing, except for a newer kernel and some drivers, has just reached version 3.0. ZevenOS-Neptune 3.0 has been dubbed “Brotkasten” and was finally launched after a flurry of development versions. “This release features the linux kernel 3.8.4 and is exclusively meant to run on 64bit CPUs. … Read more
Linus Torvalds announced the immediate availability of the forth release candidate in the 3.9 branch of the Linux kernel. It’s Monday and this means that Linus Torvalds has released a new Linux kernel over the weekend, probably at an impossible hour. The Linux developer and maintainer has expressed his disappointment because the commits haven’t calmed … Read more
phpMyAdmin, the popular tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL databases, has just reached version 4.0.0 Beta 3. The developers of phpMyAdmin have just released the third development version, in a new branch of the application. There aren’t many changes from the previous release, but at least they’re staying on track … Read more