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It's been five years since Drupal, the popular GPLed Web development framework, has had a major version release. The new Drupal 5, which debuted in earlier this month, was eight months in development and incorporates more than 1,000 patches from nearly half as many contributors. It also features overhauls and updates in system performance, usability, user interface, and theming.

3Com Corp. today unveiled a new open-source approach to its networking products centered on a Linux-based module that fits into its Router 6000 family and will support multivendor applications for security, voice over IP and other functions. The strategy, called Open Service Networking (OSN), will allow service providers and integrators to create customized services for business users, said Andrew Bronson, product manager for OSN routers at 3Com.

Last summer, I wrote aboutlocal Ruby events and theRubyConf*MI event that was (at that time) just announced. Since then, I've taken some time to write about regional conferences, and to encourage people to check out theRuby Central grant program.

UBERYL is a new Spanish distribution based on Ubuntu. UBERYL is now available for download. - DistroWatch. Screenshots of UBERYL Alpha are available at LinuxQuestions.org.

"The Linux kernel community is offering all companies free Linux driver development," Greg Kroah-Hartman posted in an open offer on the lkml, for all types of devices"from USB toys to PCI video devices to high-speed networking cards." He explains,"all that is needed is some kind of specification that describes how your device works, or the email address of an engineer that is willing to answer questions every once in a while. A few sample devices might be good to have so that debugging doesn't have to be done by email, but if necessary, that can be done." He added,"if your company is worried about NDA issues surrounding your device's specifications, we have arranged a program with OSDL/TLF's Tech Board to provide the legal framework where a company can interact with a member of the kernel community in order to properly assure that all needed NDA requirements are fulfilled."

South Africa will not be host to Linuxworld this year, or possibly ever again, after conference organisers Exhibitions for Africa cancelled the show citing high licensing costs.

Frans Pop has announced that with the upload of the new kernel for Etch, we can now start seriously preparing the RC2 release of Debian Installer. He is particularly happy that they managed to fix some important issues in the graphical frontend, which is now a lot more stable than it was for RC1.

This guide shows how to remove a failed hard drive from a Linux RAID1 array (software RAID), and how to add a new hard disk to the RAID1 array without losing data.

These days, it seems like we are being bombarded with options for keeping our lives in sync with the events happening around us. For years, PDAs and now even more so, Pocket PCs have become a mainstay for anyone whose life is dictated by the events happening on their calendar.

Denx Software Engineering has updated its free embedded Linux distribution and development tool suite. "Embedded Linux Development Kit" (ELDK) Release 4.1 is based on a 2.6.19.2 Linux kernel and Denx's freely licensed U-Boot 1.2 bootloader, and features support for the Xenomai 2.3 real-time extensions.

Trend of Porting Popular Windows-based Applications to Alternative OS Continues

Want some frustration? Buy a piece of hardware with “Linux support” and try to use it on anything besides x86 GNU/Linux. If you’re fortunate enough to choose a device for which there exists free drivers, you’ll have much more luck. Often, recompiling is all that’s necessary–and if you use a modern distribution, you may not even have to compile it yourself.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Apache primary developer Brian Behlendorf and Creative Commons' Lawrence Lessig will head the list of speakers at the first Digital Freedom Expo to be held at UWC in April.

If the thought of Microsoft Vista's DRM restrictions, restrictive EULA, version confusion and user lock-in has you scared then you definitely do not want to know what the lads from Redmond have in store for the next version. If Microsoft's latest patent application is anything to go by then the next version of Windows, Vista+1 is really going to give you nightmares.

Ken tells us of a smart and tough little girl. Its tough when your on the Honor Roll but your family doesn't make much.

Users, administrators, and developers of Ubuntu are invited to attend the second UbuCon on Friday, Feb. 16 -- the day after the LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit -- at the new Google office at 76 Ninth Avenue, New York City. The first UbuCon was held last August in Mountain View, Calif.

Brussels, 29 January 2007 -- The FFII has sent an open letter to all delegations of the International Standardization Organization (ISO) to oppose with contradictions the "fast track" adoption of the Microsoft's 6000-page OOXML specification (ECMA-376) before the deadline of February, 5th. Microsoft's proposal damages the adoption of the existing ISO 26300 standard (OpenDocument) that covers almost the same functionality in just 600 pages.

The Open News podcast is pleased to announce its first official episode. Tune in every week to hear more.

Fedora announced this month that by using a tracking tool to monitor unique IP addresses, it was able to determine that Fedora Core 6 now has more than one million users. What does all this metric gathering mean for future Fedora releases? Moreover, what does it mean for the Linux community at large? The answer on both counts: plenty.

The question asked on the back cover was intriguing: "Tired of reading Object Oriented Analysis and Design books that only make sense after you're an expert?". Does this mean I don't have to be an "expert" to read and understand this book? How much of a "newbie" can I be? Ok, according the the book's intro, you need to know Java or C# in order to get anything out of this book. You don't have to be a guru but this should not be the first programming book you've picked up. This is the first "Head First" book I have reviewed so I have no way to compare it to others in the series. Guess it'll have to stand on its own merits.