$2000 Bounty For Open Source Drivers For Kinect
Adafruit Industries, an open source hardware developer, has announced an X prize style $2000 bounty to the whoever can first develop open source drivers for Kinetic.
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InnoDB Storage Engine Dropped From Oracle MySQL Classic Edition
In a move to make MySQL more profitable, Oracle has dropped support for InnoDB storage engine from the MySQL Classic edition which is available for free.
Ubuntu 11.04 – What To Expect?
The Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando, Florida is now over and we now have the list of the changes that we may see in Ubuntu...
Fedora 14 Linux Released
Fedora Linux entered into it's 14th edition. This version of Fedora too continued the Fedora tradition of not being released on the initially announced release date. Well jokes apart, Fedora 14 is a rock solid Linux distribution and has some really good features.
And So The Exodus Begins – 33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org
After Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, OpenOffice.org fell into the hands of Oracle, as did a lot of other products. So, last month a few very prominent members of the OpenOffice.org community decided to form The Document Foundation and fork OpenOffice.org as LibreOffice, possibly fearing that it could go the OpenSolaris way.
VLC May Be Removed From The Apple’s App Store
Understandably many users are happy that VLC has made it to the App Store. However, it has not gone down too well with the developers of VLC and Rémi Denis-Courmont, one of the chief developers of VLC, have sent a copyright infringement notice to Apple.