Back in October, we wrote about Wildfire Games' 0 A.D., the open-source project aiming to bring professional-quality gaming to Ubuntu and other platforms.  I recently had a chance to interview Erik Johansson, project leader of the 0 A.D. team.  Here's what he had to say about the game, and how you can help make it a reality.

The Linux Foundation, the non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting Linux, has announced the top five 2010 Linux.com Linux Gurus. Each of the guru's will receive invitations to this year's 4th annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit and the Ultimate Guru has received a Linux laptop signed by Linus Torvalds

The ongoing debate over the change in the position of the window buttons in the upcoming Ubuntu release, Lucid Lynx, reminds one that Linux users possess one awful characteristic in spades - a sense of entitlement.

While the Linux community has benefited greatly from Ubuntu’s investments and focus on the deficiencies of Debian, it is not clear why Shuttleworth needed to fork Debian to improve Debian in the first place. Hiring volunteers to work full-time is a good way to speed up progress, but they could have done their work inside of Debian if Mark had told them to.

Konstatin Dmitriev's Morevna Project is to 2-D animation what the Blender Foundation's Open movie projects have been for 3-D. The goal is to produce a production-quality, full-length animated feature, using only open source software, and license the source content and final product under free, re-use-friendly terms.

Interested in coding on Tor and getting paid for it by Google? If you are a student, Tor project has good news for you: it has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2010 together with The Electronic Frontier Foundation!

Stuart Parmenter, from the Firefox for mobile devices team, has announced that Mozilla will stop development of Firefox for Windows Mobile, expected to be released in final form later this year.