The Fedora Project is celebrating its fifth birthday today. Congrats, Fedora! It seems like just yesterday I was covering the first release to see how (or if) Fedora would distinguish itself from Red Hat Linux.

Once upon a time CIOs bought into open source solely to achieve dramatic cost savings. Today, Red Hat gave them another reason: superior performance.

As November 5's national election looms in the United States, voters can expect increasing coverage of the hot-button issues through the mainstream media and campaign ads. On issues important to the open source and free software communities, however, information is harder to come by. Today we take a look at what the Democratic and Republican candidates say about questions close to the FOSS voter.

Howdy, Comrades! It's Shane, guest-blogging from the new Union of American Socialist States (UASS). As many are aware, I haven't contributed much here in the previous year or so - save my last cameo appearance when Roy took a well-deserved break, so perhaps there are some folks here who have never heard from me before.

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Once again the board of Free software in schools Norway are happy to invite everyone who wish to contribute to the Skolelinux-project to our developer gathering in Oslo on the 10th-12th of October..."

Open.Amsterdam (in Dutch; English PDF download available here) is working to convert most of the city of Amsterdam's computers to GNU/Linux and open source software, and to make sure that any remaining proprietary-OS computers owned by the city use open file formats instead of closed, proprietary ones.

"Introduction: In rural Africa the penetration of telecommunication services, for example telephony and internet access, is low and in some regions non-existent.

Our writer subjects Linux to the most exacting useability test yet devised: his girlfriend