Category Archives: Linux

OpenOffice 3.0 released!

OpenOffice 3.0 is out. Support for OOXML (read-only, though) and ODF 1.2. Article about new features on Linux Format OpenOffice.org website (struggling with the amount of traffic generated by Slashdot, I think :p) OpenOffice Mirrors in Google Cache (bottom of … Continue reading

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Mono 2.0 released!!

Mono 2.0 brings C# 3.0 to Linux & Mac OSX. Ars Technica has a nice overview of the major changes (C# 3.0, VB 8, LINQ, Windows.Forms 2.0, …). Full article: Ars Technica Mono: Website

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LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds

At the Linux Plumbers Conference, Arjan van de Ven, Linux developer at Intel and author of PowerTOP, and Auke Kok, another Linux developer at Intel’s Open Source Technology Center, demonstrated a Linux system booting in five seconds. The hardware was an Asus … Continue reading

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