The final version of the important Digital Agenda for Europe has been leaked – and shows that the European Commission has betrayed open standards. Where an earlier draft had an entire section headed “Open Standards and Interoperability”, the latest version only uses the word “open” once in the corresponding section “Interoperability and standards.”

Kuwait's Ministry of Electricity - Water swaps Ballnux for GNU/Linux; Red Hat upgraded by a longtime foe
Good news has come from Kuwait, which is one of Microsoft's key victims [1, 2].

After several months of development, it is finally time to introduce the world to WriteType. WriteType is an application designed to aid young students in writing and typing on the computer. It offers text completion to make touch typing more efficient.

The Linux Foundation has announced that its third regional LinuxCon conference will take place from the 31st of August to the 1st of September, 2010 in São Paulo, Brazil and will include talks from Linux creator Linus Torvalds

On the heels of the recent news that Mandriva is up for sale comes a whisper of a rumor from an insider source at a large Linux software company.

There’s a disturbing trend that I’ve been running into everywhere for a while now. I’m talking about the tendency of developers committing the cardinal sin of software: Thou shalt not release a new version that has fewer features than the previous version.

In response to the continuous compromise of networks, multiple countries have begun developing secure platforms and operating systems.

The next version of Fedora is now to be released on the 25th of May. This year the annually awarded Fedora scholarship goes to long-standing contributor Ian Weller