Grand opening
by Sander MarechalIt took a little longer that originally planned, but Lone Wolves 3.0 has has finally landed! A new backend (home-grown this time), a new design and lots of new content. The biggest changes are the main site and the projects section. Out goes the generic Nuke portal and in comes a blog-like front. Alongside the release of Lone Wolves 3.0 comes Hearts for GNOME, an implementation of the popular card game for the GNOME desktop. Truth be told, it's one of the reasons the release of Lone Wolves 3.0 took so long.
Samba creator takes stand in Microsoft case
"Andrew Tridgell, creator of the Samba server software used by free and open-source software developers alike, made an important contribution to the European Commission's defense of its 2004 Microsoft Corp. antitrust ruling at the Court of First Instance this week."
"Once a year, top software programmers from rival software companies from around the world gather at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, California, for what they term a "plugfest." The engineers bring computers and the software programs they are working on and literally plug them together to see how their programs interoperate. [...] But [Microsoft] turned its back on the rest of the software community in the late 1990s once it had developed a server operating system it believed it could corner the market with."
From: IT World