GNU/Linux

• MEPIS Linux 8.0 nears release
• Zen and the Art of the Six-Figure Linux Job
• Linux and FOSS in a Slowing Economy
• New Linux Distribution, Linpus, Goes Global
• HUGHES Telematics selects Wind River for auto electronics
  
  

  HUGHES Telematics is developing an advanced end-to-end telematics solution that will embrace a next-generation telematics architecture, which will be largely enabled by Wind River’s open operating system and hypervisor technology. Wind River’s solution will reduce development and hardware costs and increase the system’s functionality. HUGHES Telematics will begin rolling out its telematics solution in 2009.

  
  
  
• Red Hat Linux trumps Unix on TPC price/performance test
  
  

  In a recent independent test, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 Advanced Platform trumped all other operating systems that process more than 1 million transactions per minute -- and at 22% lower cost than its next closest competitor.

  
  
  
• Linux SDIO stack targets ARM SoCs
  
  

  Chennai, India-based EmbWise has ported its Linux SDIO stack to two ARM-based system-on-chips (SoCs). Its SDIOWorx stack is now available for Freescale's i.MX31 and i.MX27 multimedia SoCs, which are primarily targeted at the personal media player (PMP), personal navigation device (PND), and video surveillance camera markets, says EmbWise.

  
  
  
• Devil-Linux distro bundles router/firewall and server in one live CD
• Improving boot time on a general Linux distribution, not an easy task

New Releases

• Qt Software Introduces a New Release of Qt Extended, a Software Development Platform for Consumer Electronics
• Latest Open-Xchange Server Edition Simplifies Integration, Easily Customizable
• Virtual touch trims storage costs

F/OSS

• Does an open source Roku change the content game?
• Lawson Software CEO: Proprietary software is 'like cocaine'
• Linux.com's guide to the 2008 US presidential candidates
• The most important open source system: Voting
• Adobe cites bad blood for closed Flash
• Will open source work for nanotechnology?

Law

• Copyright Act change shifts software rights
• The case for licensed open source software

RMS

• Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman
• Avoiding Ruinous Compromises
• Richard Stallman looks back at 25 years of the GNU project

Applications

• Konqueror, The Powerful KDE Browser
• VLC goes to nine point two
• Enhancements to VoIP Software Ekiga 3.0
• Linux speaks your instant messaging dialect

Rights

• Swedish government to soften eavesdropping law
• BT to kick off fresh Phorm trial
• French to fight police database
• US politicians back Act to save internet radio

Leftovers

• 10 amazingly alternative operating systems and what they could mean for the future
• The Bizarre Cathedral - 24
• Nvidia settles price-fixing lawsuit
• Computer data breach at Sonoma State University