Today marks a historic day in Mythbuntu development. Over the last year we have been having discussions with several major cable companies in the United States regarding enabling CableCARD support for all Mythbuntu users. Late last year we reached an agreement with two of those major companies, Time Warner & Comcast.

Asterisk, a PBX, telephony engine, and telephony applications toolkit, is one of open source best-kept secrets. As with many open source projects, there is a company that has been set up to provide support, Digium.

IBM and other players on Monday will launch its Open Cloud Manifesto, a call to make cloud computing “open as all other IT technologies.” But the list of companies that didn’t sign on to the manifesto is telling. Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce never signed on. Google was on a preliminary list of companies that signed on with the manifesto, but dropped off the final list.

After Red Hat (NYSE: RHT)'s last round of positive numbers, Citigroup issued a report that the flagship open source company is a "tempting acquisition target". To which I can only reply: Here we go again.

A quick update on Linspire and Xandros, which signed patent deals with Microsoft.

EVO keeps quietly showing up in the news for their EVO Smart Console, a Linux-based game console. It sounds cool, but there is one issue...

We've had a number of reader requests to make available some of the imagery we use on the covers of Linux Format magazine. Naturally we're happy to share with you all.

Amarok 2 is regrettably worse than unusable (it actually causes data loss) for people coming from Amarok 1. Worst part is, Fedora ships it as "stable" software since its tenth release.