Following the announcement in December 2008 of an international committee associating Mandriva with its Community, Mandriva, Europe’s leading Linux publisher, has completed the setting up of Mandriva Linux Assembly.

Simon Phipps is a natural when it comes to speaking. The man has a good turn of phrase, is skilled in the art of repartee, and can engage an audience very well.

Entrepreneur Mark Gorton wants to do for people what he already helped do for files: move them from here to there in the most efficient way possible using open-source tools.

This anti-Linux Microsoft "ad" hit the Web a few weeks ago, but I just came across it last night and thought it was funny.

Debian Linux founder and former OpenSolaris chief Ian Murdock is taking over the role of chief strategist for cloud computing at Sun Microsystems.

Just as KDE 4 is poised to prove itself with the user-friendly 4.2 release, the year-long controversy over the changes from the KDE 3 release has ignited again. This time, the spark was a interview comment by Linus Torvalds that he had switched to GNOME and thought that the KDE release had been mis-managed.

"Dear Associate Member, The annual meeting date is set! March 21st and 22nd -- that's right, two whole days! This year's meet-up will be in the Harvard Science Center, right in Harvard Square on the MBTA's red line.

"Dear TeXies, TeX friends and lovers of fine typography — This is an invitation to BachoTeX 2009, the XVIIth Polish TeX Users Group Conference. As usual, it will be held at the traditional TeXies' and GUST meeting place, Bachotek near Brodnica, in the north-east of Poland, from April 29 until May 3, 2009 inclusive.