What do you expect the next version of your favourite distribution to be? Better or worse. For me upgrading CentOS 5.2 to 5.5 became a worse experience.

It was pointed out to us that while some indie developer forays into Linux had resulted in drama, it was hoped that more indies would “take the plunge” and share their experiences with the Linux community, to work together towards developing Linux into a platform for gaming.

On Sunday a new version of the Linux kernel rocked up, with two new filesystems loaded into the distro.

It takes the right tools to do the job right. When it comes to writing code, it's important to consider both the needs of the job and the preferences of individual developers.

Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux 2.6.34, which is notable for adding two filesystems: Ceph for distributed and cloud-based applications, and LogFS, which is optimized for flash-memory based devices. Other new features include a faster KVM virtualization driver based on Vhost.net technology, says LinuxPlanet.com.

The newest Linux kernel release continues its rapid development pace, adding a pair of new filesystems and boosting virtualization performance.

Yapsi -- a Perl 6 compiler written in Perl 6 itself is released. Yapsi is an 'official and complete' Perl 6 release. It's official because authors have little labels with the word 'official' on them that they glue to each download that takes off from github. It's complete in the sense that all of the things it implements, it does.

Updated versions of the open source database PostgreSQL fix security vulnerabilities in the Perl and Tcl procedural languages for stored procedures