Crave: "Case in point: Walter Bender, who just left the OLPC initiative to start up its open-source software spinoff, is reportedly in 'informal discussions' to get its Linux operating system on low-cost laptops made by four manufacturers..."

ZDNet: "Microsoft's decision to add support to Office 2007 for the Open Document Format instead of its own OOXML office file format is due to backwards compatibility issues with OOXML, it has emerged..."

LinuxSecurity.com: SAN FRANCISCO - May 20, 2008 - CoverityT, Inc., the leader in improving software quality and security, today announced the availability of the Scan Report on Open Source Software 2008. The Coverity Scan site was developed with support from

Volker Theile has announced the release of FreeNAS 0.686.4: "FreeNAS 0.686.4 stable was released today. It is a maintenance release so no new features have been included. Changes: Set subnet mask to 24 per default if DHCP is activated, otherwise

vnunet: "The commercial Linux market in China has seen sales value increase 22.6 per cent over the past year, according to new research..."

ConsortiumInfo: "SABS, the National Body member of ISO/IEC JTC1 for South Africa, has filed a formal appeal with both ISO and IEC, challenging the Fast Track adoption of OOXML..."

open.ended: "Trolltech developer Jens Bache-Wiig is working on a new style engine for Qt that can leverage the user's default GTK+ theme..."

Marcos Guglielmetti has announced the release of Musix GNU/Linux 1.0R4, the fourth revision of the Debian-based distribution featuring a large collection of free software for creative artists: "The Musix GNU+Linux 1.0R4 live DVD was produced on the basis of the

The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0492 Imporant

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0492 Imporant

CentOS Errata and Enhancement Advisory 2008:0274

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0287 Important

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0287 Important

Mohammed Saleh compared the application performance of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and Windows XP SP3

CentOS Errata and Enhancement Advisory 2008:0274

LinuxPlanet: "Last week we learned how to rescue a failing hard drive by copying files to a second local hard drive. You can also copy files over the network, which is useful for nearly any problem, whether it's software or

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Granted; the last command doesn't offer too much in the extra-functionality department, but it does have one very useful feature..."

informIT: "The use of Linux is no longer the sole preserve of IT administrators and tech-savvy computer users..."

There is a myth that "linux filesystems don't need to be defragmented." As it may be truth in general, it still can be dispelled by a simple script, which creates a certain number of directories and in each of them