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Canonical releases source code for Launchpad

Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 July 2009 21:40

Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project, announced today that it has open-sourced the code that runs Launchpad, the software development and collaboration platform used by tens of thousands of developers. Launchpad is used to build Ubuntu and thousands of other projects, and its users can now participate directly in the development of Launchpad itself. Launchpad allows developers to host and share code from many different sources using the Bazaar version control system, which is integrated into Launchpad.

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KDE Reaches 1,000,000 Commits in its Subversion Repository

KDE announced today that the one millionth commit has been made to its Subversion-based revision control system. "This is a wonderful milestone for KDE," said Cornelius Schumacher, President of the KDE e.V. Board of Directors. "It is the result of years of hard work by a large, diverse, and talented team that has come together from all over the globe to develop one of the largest and most comprehensive software products in the world."

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Virtualization, cloud underlie Microsoft's Linux kernel submission

Experts say Microsoft's submission Monday of virtualization driver source code to the Linux kernel marks a watershed event in the vendor's understanding of open source's future."This is another sign of Microsoft's maturation with respect to open source," said Jeffrey Hammond, an analyst with Forrester Research. "There has been a real set of stepping stones toward a pragmatic and practical embrace of open source. This is like the final capstone."

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Microsoft unleashes 20,000 lines of Linux code

Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 July 2009 03:54

Microsoft is releasing three Microsoft-developed Linux drivers to the Linux community for possible inclusion in the Linux source tree. This is the first time Microsoft has made Microsoft-developed code available directly to the Linux community. The Redmondians have released various pieces of code under different open-source licenses over the past few years, but this is the first time Microsoft has released Linux code.

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