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What is to be expected in the Open Source world in 2009

Sunday 28 December 2008 at 15:19

So what are the developers preparing for 2009? Following are the informations Scoffoni has found on the web and shared on his blog





Here are the novelties:


- January : KDE 4.2
- February : FreeBSD 7.2
- March : Firefox 3.1, GNOME 2.26.0, Open Office 3.1, Mono 2.4, Wordpress 2.8, Frugalware 1.0 Anacreon
- April 16th : Mandriva 2009.1
- April 23rd : Ubuntu 9.04
- May 1st : OpenBSD 4.5
- May 26th : Fedora 11
- June 30th : KDE 4.3, FreeBSD 8.0
- August : Wordpress 3.0
- September : Open Suse 11.2
- October : Ubuntu 9.10
- November 1st : OpenBSD 4.6

Two other open source projects may be released in 2009


- Thunderbird 3
- Debian 5 (lenny)


If you have any info, don't hesitate to comment with a release date and a source.


Source: Philippe Scoffoni' s blog, and thanks to atem18 et mehd36.


by Blondvador