Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #136 for the week March 29th - April 4th, 2009.

One of the most epic free open-source first person shooters has just released it's latest version with over 3000 changes to both the code and the artwork. It's truly impressive how far the game has come and with these new changes, the sky is the limit! Nexuiz is a very community driven game that runs on Windows, OSX and Linux. Check it out!

But here’s the zillion-dollar question: Is Cloudera really the next hot open source start-up, perhaps a nascent XenSource (bought by Citrix for a gorgeous $500 million)? Or will it be just another fledgling rushing into the crowded cloud computing sector?

skAsterisk, a PBX, telephony engine, and telephony applications toolkit, is one of open source best-kept secrets. As with many open source projects, there is a company that has been set up to provide support, Digium.

Here's its latest press release:

Thanks to Mike Dailey a very interesting discussion has been sparked on Linux and open source in the enterprise. For anybody wanting to follow the entire discussion here's how it goes.

It started here:

Eric S. Raymond is one of the three big figures in open source, together with Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman. During a talk for the Long Island Linux User Group, he made some interesting statements about the GPL, namely that the GPL is no longer needed due to the way the open source movement works.

There are a number of version control systems available. Originally there was RCS, which was suitable for individuals, but not really suitable for groups of people. It evolved into CVS, which worked pretty well for years, and then Subversion came along, making a better CVS than CVS itself.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #134 for the week March 15th - March 21st, 2009.