Linux Journal recently caught up with Mandriva CEO, François Bancilhon, to find out more about a recently announced partnership between Mandriva of France and Turbolinux of Japan.

Reverse-engineering open source drivers for hardware devices will only reduce the pressure on manufacturers to provide such drivers, Dirk Hohndel told an audience at the Australian national Linux conference today.

"I ordered PAIP today. Good computer books are so expensive. It hurts me to spend $80 on a book. But there are many worse ways to spend $80 than on something which contains so much knowledge, I guess. I got a $25 gift card for a book store for Christmas, so may as well put it to good use. I've read good reviews of PAIP, so I hope it lives up to them. I had only one AI course in college, and it was taught in C (ugh) by a grad student, and I learned little to nothing from it. It'll be nice to revisit the subject. (And learn more Common Lisp, of course.) [...] Every request to Hunchentoot is apparently handled in a Lisp thread, so concurrency issues are generally all taken care of for you, no worries.

With 2,000 lines of code being added every single day, any lingering suggestion that Linux might suffer from a lack of support is clearly insane. But what lessons can the open-source OS teach its somewhat younger encyclopaedic cousin, Wikipedia?

MIT just announced that it will offer a new class focused on building mobile applications for the Linux-based Google Android. The class is already full and is a small example of how students believe open source is making progress in the mobile industry.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued a ruling this evening extending the expiring terms of Microsoft's U.S. antitrust consent decree until Nov. 12, 2009, two years from the previous expiration date. California, New York and other states had been asking for a five-year extension; Microsoft had argued that none was needed.

There are plenty of other things that also need fixing in MySQL, according to a blog posting by Jeremy Cole, who formerly used the database at Yahoo and is now a MySQL consultant at Proven Scaling. "There are a lot of areas where MySQL has been lacking for a long time, and the power users have been either crying in their beer or doing the work themselves," Cole wrote.