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Apple Opens Grand Central; Challenges Impede Linux Adoption

Monday, 14 September 2009 02:28 ArsTechnica
Apple has opened the source code of Grand Central Dispatch (GCD), a powerful, system-wide concurrency framework that was introduced in Mac OS X 10.6. The userspace library component of GCD, which is called libdispatch, is now available for download under the terms of the Apache Software License..
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How 'Suite' They Are: OpenOffice.org and Its Multiple Offshoots

Friday, 11 September 2009 07:17 Jacqueline Emigh

With a major update of its own slated in another couple of months, the cross-platform OpenOffice.org office suite has also spurred a spate of intriguing offshoots, ranging from a thumbnail USB edition to the Go-oo variant and beyond.

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Gin Up A Quick Web Page With Kompozer

Friday, 11 September 2009 06:54 Rob Reilly
Some Web authoring programs are very easy to use, like OpenOffice.org, but produce horrendously complicated HTML files.  Other applications are geared toward twiddling every single tag, like Bluefish. Kompozer strikes a good balance with a nice user interface, clean tagging, and built-in publishing features.
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GNOME 2.28.0 Release Candidate Is Out

Friday, 11 September 2009 04:51 Phoronix
The hard code freeze for GNOME 2.28.0 is coming up soon with the final release of this feature-update to GNOME coming out at the end of this month, but available now is the GNOME 2.28 release candidate.
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New Google Summer of Code Statistics Posted

Friday, 11 September 2009 00:11 The H
Google has posted new statistics about its 2005 to 2009 Summer of Code contests which offer university students stipends to write and develop code for various open source projects...
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Get Decked: A Look at TweetDeck

Thursday, 10 September 2009 16:24 Linux Magazine
Having trouble keeping up with your social media? The TweetDeck crew released a major update to the "social dashboard" this week that adds support for Facebook and MySpace.
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