We now have over 300 different developers signed up to help create, and maintain Linux drivers! What we need now is more companies participating in the project, we have the developers, but not enough work to keep them busy.

Go is an active topic in the free software community. There's the excellent GNU-Go engine, the CGoban GUI front end, and then there was Hikarunix, the Linux live CD devoted entirely to the game of Go. I also blush a little bit whenever I hear a discussion of the difficulty of programming Go, because... I took a shot at it.

The Vietnamese agent for Asianux, an Asian consortium distributing open source software LINUX, is set to develop the open source software market in the country.

According to a new interview with Linus Torvalds there will be no Linux kernel 3.0 as the great man himself says there is no need.

Does it really have to be the open source that drives the community contributions, and thus defines at least this measure of the success of the project?

Linux has come a long way in the last 10 years. At that time, if you were looking through the main audio and music applications on other operating systems, you would have struggled to find comparable, fully developed, apps on Linux. Nowadays, while no one would say the job was done, they could point to an assortment of high-quality applications that are getting real jobs done.

Here are some exciting new developments that has happened in compiz-fusion world.

Last month, Novell decided to push the limits of developer empowerment and perform an elaborate experiment in innovation by liberating the company's entire Linux engineering team for one full week of free hacking.