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In this month's exciting episode of GNU and FSF News, we learn that Eben Moglen has resigned from the FSF, the FSFE starts a list of Free Software legal experts in Europe, Vista has it in for GCC, GNOME will soon fit in the palm of your hand, RMS visits Sweden, and the GPLv3 still can't get along with the Apache 2.0 license. Read on to find out the details of these and other recent stories in the free software community.

New framework allows rapid expansion of scan.coverity.com — 400 percent Increase in 45 Days

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 85 for the week of April 22nd through April 28th, 2007.

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 84 for the week of April 15th through April 21st, 2007.

This week on Open News ... Bruce Perens stands up for the GPLv3, Watch Out For Linux Wifi, and Linux Goes To The Races.

LXer Feature: 15-Apr-2007

A weekly recap of the big stories concerning Linux and Open Source.

In a long-anticipated move, Ed Colligan, president and CEO of Palm, Inc., told investment analysts this week that the company plans to release Linux-based mobile devices by the end of the year. Reaction from the mobile computing community ranged from excitement to caution.

Palm, best known for Treo smartphones powered by Palm OS and Windows Mobile, is likely to ship Linux phones this year, confirmed CEO Ed Collagan today at Palm's "Analyst and Investor Day." Palm's Linux platform will add reliability, performance, and stability to Palm's smartphones, Collagan said.

With Palm attempting to migrate its OS to Linux and Symbian working to begin a degree of interoperability with Unix, Linux-based phones are gaining ground, and a recent ABI report suggests they will make up 14 percent of the market by 2012. They face an uphill battle, however against an array of difficult obstacles.

Bug stamp-out list for March 30, 2007

Department of Homeland Security open source hardening project grows to 150 applications and regular scans of 35 million lines of source code

Bug stamp-out list for March 23, 2007

Welcome to this year's 4th issue of DWN, the newsletter for the Debian community. The Debian listmaster determined as part of the spring cleaning effort several unused and obsolete lists that will be closed down. Tony Mobily noted that the last GIF patent has finally expired. Gustavo Franco reported that Second Life runs on Debian servers because it is suited to scaling massively with a small IT staff.

Bug stamp-out list for March 9, 2007

Release-critical Bugreport for February 23, 2007

Bug stamp-out list for February 9, 2007

Members of the open source GPE project (GPE Palmtop Environment) have announced a new offspring project to create a fully open source software stack for mobile phones, GPE Phone Edition.

Bug stamp-out list for January 26, 2007

Welcome to this year's 1st issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Erinn Clark, co-founder and leader of Debian Women is selected one of the top 10 girl geeks who are influential in Open Source. Linux-Watch posted Chris Fearnley's rebuttal to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols argument that Debian is in trouble.

Bug report for January 19, 2007