Debian developers seek new leader, Feb 16, 2007

Nominations for the unpaid position of Debian Project Leader (DPL) opened last week. The successful candidate will take over from current incumbent Anthony Towns in April.

IBM has released its new Open Client Solution for business, a package of office software applications that supports several operating systems, including Linux and Windows. In particular, the Linux business desktop runs on both Red Hat's Enterprise Linux Workstation and Novell's SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop).

Today, a Russian judge dismissed the Microsoft piracy case against school principal Alexander Ponosov.

Is open-source still a grassroots social movement made up of idealistic underdogs trying to revolutionize an amoral industry? Or has it become a cloak used by IT vendors large and small to disguise ruthless and self-serving behavior?

Red Hat will ship its new version 5 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux to customers in March, spokeswoman Kathryn Poole said Tuesday.

Dr. Zhang has a strong passion for the open source community and has offered to give a box to anyone who wishes to contribute to the Lemote application platform.

Ubuntu has dropped a plan to enable by default an interface with fancy 3D graphics for its upcoming Feisty Fawn version due April 19.

Quanta Computer, the world's largest contract laptop PC manufacturer, already has confirmed orders for one million notebook PCs for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, a company representative said Thursday.

Microsoft and Novell have been making a big deal of their big deal to work together to soothe customers' cross-platform pain points. But it remains to be seen whether and how far the deal will end up extending beyond the realm of press releases and presentation slide decks.

Pamela Jones is a real person. I've met her several times, and I've often "talked" with her on email and IM. I consider her a friend.

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