Three new resources for Free and Open Source Software project governance were released into beta today (and they are all free, as in beer). The first is a library of links covering everything from process development through to politics.

After 16 years of dogged work, Wine actually works pretty well. Part of its success is due to a remarkable cooperation between the Wine project and a commercial software house in St. Paul named Codeweavers. Codeweavers sells a $40 deployment, management utility for Wine called Crossover, which basically makes Wine noob friendly.

How four vendors of desktop GNU/Linux lost their direction after joining Microsoft's software patents racket

Constructive suggestions for Canonical to save disk space and also remove a controversial dependency that slows Ubuntu down

Dan Williams, Red Hat collaborator and NetworkManager developer, might be upset but doesn't let it get to him. In the GNOME blog, he advises "just say no" to WiFi drivers in the linux-staging tree and recommends changes.

Mozilla gives its software away for free, yet year after year they keep making money. For the 2008 year, Mozilla is just now disclosing how much revenue it generated and it was another growth year for the open source group.

Small files performance is still the Achiles heel of GlusterFS. Tuning for replication (AFR, mirroring), distributed and NUFA setups is a non-trivial task, and you must know your application behaviour, your hardware and network infrastructure.

One of the features though that has just been proposed for Fedora 13 is rather interesting and that is system rollback support via Btrfs file-system snapshots.