Ohloh's Open Source Goods, Apr 13, 2007

There are tens of thousands of open source projects in the wild, but how do you determine what's good and what's not?

Ironically for Microsoft, Vista is just the shot in the arm that desktop systems with open-source Linux OS needs.

On Thursday the company announced the release of Yellow Dog Linux 5.0.1 for Apple PowerPC systems

And it seems a terrible shame to throw away perfectly good old computers just because they won't run a modern version of Windows. What we need is a Granny Linux, something that is safe from both malice at one end of the modem cable and bafflement at the other.

A researcher from France Telecom has discovered the first remotely exploitable 802.11 WiFi bug on a Linux machine.

Lobby4Linux announced an ambitious project to raise $350,000 or more to sponsor "Team Linux" with a big logo on the side of an Indy 500 race car.

OpenSUSE announced today the release of the third public alpha of OpenSUSE 10.3, which boasts a 2.6.21-RC5 kernel, a choice of GNOME or KDE desktops, and its usual complete roster of application packages.

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