Google, while signing the agreement with MPEG LA concerning VP8 codec, had assured that there would be a third party license agreement in place for the protection of those using the VP8/WebM. This however doesn’t seem to be the case as an open source advocate has ruled that the recently published draft VP8 patent cross-license agreement seems to be closing doors on software freedom.
Open source implementation of Apache Hadoop - Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) for Windows has just been released.
Just over a year after it was released the open source office suite Apache OpenOffice has reached a milestone of 50 million downloads.
Linus Torvalds has released the second biggest ever release candidate 1 – The Linux 3.10-rc1 which has over 11,900 commits. Some of the features of the Linux 3.10 are listed hereunder.
Linus Torvalds has released the Linux 3.10-rc1 kernel marking the closure of the 3.10 merge window.
Version 4.0 of the open source cloud computing platform OpenNebula project codenamed “Eagle” has been released.
A new version of phpMyAdmin – a popular web-based administration tool used by websites using MySQL databases – Version 4.0, has been released which brings with it a redesigned user interface.
Debian 7.0 “Wheezy” has just been released as anticipated and planned. Here is a roundup of the new features of the just released distro.
As targeted and anticipated the stable version of Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" has been officially released.
Adobe, in co-operation with Google and the FreeType project, has open-sourced its advanced CFF (Compact Font Format) rasterizer and released it for beta test.
