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Patrick Michaud posted a journal entry on his use Perl; page that says We will make an “official”, intermediate, useful and usable release of Perl 6 (an appropriate subset) by Spring 2010.

Amazon has announced the release of the source code for all their Kindle products. The basic underpinnings are Linux kernel 2.6.22that includes E-ink drivers, Kindle-specific hardware drivers, and probably some other Kindle-specific hardware patches. There are no specific licenses mentioned on the page but it should be safe to assume all of the code is released under the GPL since all of the modified packages are also GPL and Amazon isn’t releasing these as binary modules/blobs.

Not too many releases this week, but we do have the big Jaunty release that resulted in quite a few other releases.

So, if you’re like me and have voided the warranties of all the other electronics in your house, but have yet to sink your teeth into your poor little Western Digital MyBook World - likely cowering in the corner pleading for you to put down the screwdriver - here are some helpful resources on getting the most out this handy little NAS box that just so happens to be running BusyBox linux.

Johnny Long has launched his new site and initiative Hackers for Charity. Johnny is the author of security books (including Google Hacking for Penetration Testers), security conference presenter (including my personal favorites "Hacking Hollywood" and "No-Tech Hacking"), creator and maintainer of the Google Hacking Database (GHDB) and an all around great guy.

We have a few distros that are new to our list and quite a few familiar faces this week. Read on for the full list.

There’s been alot of discussion about IBM being in talks with Sun Microsystems about a $6.1 billion acquisition. Initially Sun’s stock (ticker: JAVA) shot up significantly while IBM’s stock (ticker: IBM) initially dropped a few points before recovering to only a small loss. While this may or may not be good for each company, I started to wonder what would happen to some of the projects that Sun manages, specifically MySQL but also ZFS, OpenSolaris and others.

Time for our weekly distro release roundup. We have another slew of Ubuntu-based alpha releases and numerous other new distro releases.

The DEFCON organizers made the audio, video, and slides available for DEFCON 16 via RSS feeds.

Once again, time for the weekly distribution roundup. This week we have a rather large list of releases, so let’s get to it.

After buying my Asus EEE PC 1000HA, I initially installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix on it. After learning more about (#!) CrunchBang Linux and seeing that they had released an optimized version for the EEE PC called CrunchEEE. I’ve been using CrunchEEE on my EEE PC for the last week and decided to do a review.

A new packet capture repository has been launched called pcapr that is sponsored and run by Mu Dynamics. pcapr appears to be a good alternative to OpenPacket and it supports protocol tagging, searching, and packet viewing in the web browser.

In what we hope to become a weekly ritual, we bring you an overview of the distributions released in the last 7 days with a little help from DistroWatch.

I recently did a bunch of package unmasking in my desktop Gentoo installation and did an emerge of KDE 4 .2 and I thought I would share my experiences in my shiny new desktop environment (unfortunately I was unable to see how Amarok2 integrated with KDE 4.2 due to some MySQL embedded compilation issues for 64-bit Linux).