Every six-month Ubuntu release is greeted with a predictable barrage of praise, complaints, and solemn pundits calling for a slower release schedule. Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu Community Manager, reveals the whys and wherefores of Ubuntu's two-pronged release strategy.

The administration of the Italian city of Bologna has almost completed its move to OpenOffice. Most of the 3600 PCs now run this open source suite of office applications. The administration is planning to move more applications to open source, aiming to become less dependent on specific IT vendors.

At the KOffice meeting in Oslo the Krita team had a meeting to put the finishing touches to an ambitious plan. On hearing about it the Dot managed to lure two of the Krita developers in a separate room to question them and find out what was going on. Nobody got seriously hurt in the process. We spoke with Krita developers Boudewijn Rempt and Lukáš Tvrdý.

The GNU Generation Member of the Month for November is Heroid Shehu! Heroid has been working on a wide variety of projects. He is one of the four developers on a new GNU/Linux distribution called RMS GNU/Linux — based on Slax, but includes only free software.

Please sign the Bring Out The GIMP petition .

Michael Arrington's Crunchpad project appears to have hit a snag, story, with some investigation.

In today's world, we have a "digital divide," wherein some people have the means and tools to exploit technology and others do not. In most developing countries, people still pirate software because they cannot afford to pay for it.

KanchiLUG – Kanchi Linux User Group, celebrated the Ubuntu Linux 9.10 Karmic Koala Release on Last Sunday, November 29, 2009 with a small release party.

Here is the report on this party.