People were already making a fuss about Nicholas’ claim that we’re working with Microsoft on supporting dual-boot with Windows XP, and now Bruce Perens writes a lachrymal — if entirely misinformed — missive about OLPC selling out to Microsoft.

"The third testing release of Parsix GNU/Linux 1.0r0 code name `Ramon` has been released..."

Bruce Perens talks about a FLOSS tool that generates the wrappings around a web service defined in C/C++. The tool takes care of a lot of the uninteresting aspects of building a web service - the parts that are likely to be exotic to someone coming from a standard C/C++, non-web, development background.

Becta, the UK government agency responsible for technology in the education sector has promised to do more to promote the use of open source software within schools and colleges and has warned educational institutions in the UK against upgrading to Windows Vista and Microsoft Office.

The One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC) plans to launch OLPC America in 2008 to distribute the low-cost laptop computers originally aimed at developing nations to needy students in the United States.

"Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 3 was released today. For those that do active bug work please help squash the bugs in 8.04 so we can make a *really* solid LTS release this spring. Release announcement and download locations below..."

Wine allows users to run Windows programs natively under Linux without paying a dime. However, there's a tiny problem: programs running in Wine don't look so great.

I have installed KDE 4 on OpenSUSE 10.3. Today morning, I fired up YAST and found that there was an update available. The KDE4 packages now have version 4.0.X instead of the previous 3.97.X. If its available in YAST that means that KDE team has released the KDE 4.0 final source and OpenSUSE team is quick enough to package them.