Last week, AMD released register specifications for the RV630 and M56 parts into open source, thus allowing the OSS community to develop 2D (and theoretically 3D) drivers, given time. Current documentation for the project is available over at X.Org.

Device drivers have started making binaries specially for PCLinuxOS. This further indicates the level of popularity PCLinuxOS has gained.

Justas Ingelevičius wrote in about an Autodesk international user group poll about non-Windows ports. Specifically, users want Autodesk Revit (engineering design software) to run on Mac OS X and GNU/Linux. As Justas writes:

"He's one of the few developers in Australia with experience working in Erlang, the functional programming language which is gaining fans for its handling of parallel processing and creating distributed systems. We sat down with Andre Pang to see what all the fuss was about."

"...In honor of One Web Day, we'd like to draw attention to some topics that we write about frequently, because we think they're pretty important..."

"The past two months have been interesting in the Chinese sense. A primary culprit of that was Microsoft's failed attempt to push their proprietary MS-OOXML format through ISO. But there were also talks and meetings with ministers (see [1][2]) to promote Free Software in Chile, the SELF board meeting in Argentina, review meeting in Brussels, and launch of the SELF beta platform.

I recently read with great interest Walt Mossberg’s review of the latest Ubuntu Linux, described as “relatively slick,” but still not ready for non-technical users. I have a couple of differing perspectives. The first is that Ubuntu is ultra slick. It’s free. It’s open source. It’s growing. It’s Linux and it works (usually).

"...here is a list of the top 10 reasons that anything (and probably everything) related to Java sucks ass in comparison to Ruby and Rails..."