Openmoko is a project which encompasses two related sub-projects, with the combined aim of creating a family of completely open source mobile phones. The project was founded by FIC.
The first sub-project is Openmoko Linux, an open source Linux based operating system designed for mobile phones, built using free software.
The second sub-project is the development of Openmoko phones — the hardware devices on which Openmoko Linux runs. The first device released was the Neo 1973, which will soon be joined by the Neo Freerunner some time in 2008. Unlike most other …

KDE, the leading Free Software desktop, continues to release updates for version 4.0 on a monthly basis. KDE 4.0.3 comes with an impressive amount of bugfixes and improvements, especially in KHTML web rendering engine and KWin window manager. As always, there are also lots of updates to translations.
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Squid is a proxy server and web cache daemon. It has a wide variety of uses, from speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests, to caching web, DNS and other computer network lookups for a group of people sharing network resources, to aiding security by filtering traffic. Although primarily used for HTTP and FTP, Squid includes limited support for several other protocols including TLS, SSL, Internet Gopher and HTTPS. The development version of Squid (3.1) includes IPv6 and ICAP support.
Squid has been developed for many years. Early work …

Mono is a project led by Novell (formerly by Ximian) to create an Ecma standard compliant .NET compatible set of tools, including among others a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime. Mono can be run on Linux, BSD, UNIX, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows operating systems.
Microsoft has a version of .NET available for FreeBSD, Windows and Mac OS X called the Shared Source CLI (Rotor). Microsoft’s shared source license may be insufficient for the needs of the community (it explicitly forbids commercial use). The Mono project has many …

Wubi is an official Windows-based free software installer for Ubuntu, licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Wubi was born as an independent project, as such 7.04 and 7.10 are unoffical releases. But since 8.04 the code has been merged within Ubuntu and since 8.04-alpha5, Wubi can also be found in the Ubuntu Live CD. Wubi has been included on the new Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon distribution.
The goal of the project is to assist a Windows user unacquainted with Linux in trying Ubuntu without risking any loss of information due …

ReactOS is a computer operating system intended to be binary-compatible with application software and device drivers made for Microsoft Windows NT versions 5.x and up (Windows 2000 and its successors). It is composed entirely of free software, by means of a complete clean room reverse engineering process.
Although the project is in the alpha development stage as of 2008, many Windows programs already work well. While the ReactOS kernel has been written from scratch, the userland is mostly based on the Wine compatibility layer for Unix-like operating systems.
ReactOS is primarily written …

HylaFAX is the leading fax server for Unix-like computer systems. It uses a client-server design and supports the sending and receiving of faxes as well as text pages, on any scale from low to very high volumes, if necessary making use of large numbers of modems. It is free software and can be used commercially without charge.
History
Sam Leffler, while working at Silicon Graphics (SGI), wrote a fax server for SGI’s IRIX servers called FlexFAX and released it to the public in June of 1991. Leffler and others worked for several …

Wouldn’t it be great if you could run those great Linux apps side-by-side with your Windows apps
—like Linux users can do with WINE or OS X can do with Parallels or VMWare? You can, and today I’ll show you how to seamlessly run your favorite Linux applications directly in Windows with a free software called andLinux
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Gobby is a free software collaborative real-time editor available on Windows and Unix-like platforms. (It runs on Mac OS X using Apple’s X11.app). It was initially released in June 2005 by the 0×539 dev group.
It features a client-server architecture which supports multiple documents in one session, document synchronisation on request, password protection and an IRC-like chat for communication. Users could choose a colour to highlight the text they have written in a document. Gobby is fully Unicode-aware, provides syntax highlighting for most programming languages and has basic Zeroconf support.
A dedicated …

GParted is the GNOME Partition Editor application. It is used for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging).
It uses libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition tables while several (optional) file system tools provide support for file systems not included in libparted. These optional packages will be detected at runtime and do not require a …