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OSDL is soliciting contributions for a fund that will give awards to programmers working on underfinanced projects.

Ruby on Rails is out with a new release of its open source Web framework with a promise: making it even easier to develop AJAX (define)-based, Web 2.0 applications.

So what's going on at LinuxWorld 2006 in Boston next week? PCBurn has an overview of the event, who's going to be speaking, and what's new this year.

The KDE Project Tuesday announced immediate availability of KDE 3.5.2, the second maintenance release for the latest generation of the popular free Linux/Unix desktop. KDE 3.5.2 provides corrections to problems reported using the KDE bug tracking system, the project said, plus several minor enhancements.

March 29, 2006 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Open Source company JBoss (jboss.com) announced on Wednesday it has introduced two open source projects designed to further strengthen the open source platform JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite. The new technologies JBoss Messaging and JBoss Web Server, expand on the Open Source provider reach into the high-end market.

With the March 29th press release of their new Line of Linux-Powered computers, SeaScape, LLC joins the small group of manufacturers who fill the void Dell, Gateway and other large computer makers create.

Have UltraSPARC T1, will discount

Lately, I read a book review on Florian Mueller’s “No Lobbyists As Such — The War over Software Patents in the European Union”, which was quite interesting - tho I still don’t know why NewsForge put that under “Entertainment”.

Last Sunday, the release candidate 5 of OpenWrt was published. OpenWrt is a Linux distribution for wireless routers.

An interesting thread on the lkml began with a patch to try and move an IOCTL call used to obtain the SCSI ID of a SCSI device from the block layer into the SCSI subsystem.

Amnon Harmon is next of Suse old guard to leave. Others include Linux CTO Geck and co-founder Mantel.

Red Hat Inc is to increase its focus on software vendor and enterprise developers via enhancements to its tools portfolio, a new portal, and the delivery of its first certified software stacks.

Join me in my petition to turn our community backs on all documentation and learning, so that we can quit being so mean and elitist to new users of Linux!

Probe extended

Last week, Microsoft yet again pushed back the release of Vista by a few weeks. The latest delay likely will lead to further discontent by enterprise Windows users, who will look to open-source software such as Linux as an alternative, Szulik said.

Like Switzerland without the punctuality

A high-profile delay to Munich's Linux migration in 2004 was actually caused by those campaigning against software patents, rather than the shadowy hand of Microsoft, according to one insider

Software patent campaigner Florian Mueller revealed this week that the City of Munich's decision to stall its Linux migration, was the result of a PR stunt by anti-patent campaigners.

Mad Penguin brings us the second and final installment in their "Tux in Retail" series (the first installment was covered on Slashdot), in which they interview Linspire CEO Kevin Carmony; Xandros CEO Andreas Typaldos; Mepis Linux founder Warren Woodford; and Kevin Jones, Micro Center Vice President of Merchandising, to get their take Tux's jump into big box retail.

I received an email from a close friend asking me to help educate the city manager in Tuttle, OK about Linux. I told him I prefer finishing a "hack" on securing SSH. Here's why I'm through orchestrating efforts for Linux in Government.

Trustix Secure Linux is an interesting distro for servers that is designed to be all about security. While Linux, in general, is fairly secure, a distro that focuses on security and stability from the ground up should be a good choice for Internet servers. In our testing, we found Trustix lives up to its intentions.