Blender is an open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation, capable of modeling, rendering, and animating 3D environments. Since Blender is completely free, everyone can download and use it immediately in commercial projects.

"...The French revolution talked about 'Education for all, Work for all'. The free software movement is taking this further with 'Computer education for all'. [...] There are many reasons why this event is path breaking, but the centre's efforts in using GNU and Linux in teaching breaks the myth that free software has only a niche user base and cannot cater to the general public..."

"...Improvement of the political dialogue and relations between social movements, citizens, scientists and research institutions for a better democratic process in sciences’ decision making..."

Bleezer is a blogging tool which includes a popular Linux version. But the developer says that the open-source components leave a lot to be desired.

KDE stalwart and African developer Uwe Thiem passed away on Friday afternoon. Uwe was a long-standing developer of KDE and an ardent advocate of free and open source software.

The stage is set for the biggest annual free and open source software community awards -- and you can help determine the winners.

"A short while ago, we announced the creation of the Django Software Foundation, a non-profit organization that exists (among other reasons) to sponsor Django coding sprints and other events for our community.

The Terminator is great. Terminator 2 is arguable greater. This Terminator is also great, as is this Terminator, probably, although I have never tried it. 2 projects, 1 name, an annoying issue which I would not wish on anyone.