LinuxWorld.com and IDG World Expo announced the 2008 winners of the LinuxWorld Product Excellence awards. The awards recognize product and service innovations by LinuxWorld and Next-Generation Data Center Conference and Expo exhibitors.

Linux Pro Magazine's Editor in Chief, Joe Casad meets Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier at LinuxWorld in San Francisco

IBM announced the release of the High Performance Computing (HPC) Open Software Stack as an open source project under the GPL. The HPC Open Software Stack is designed to support high performance clusters. The purpose of this new open source project is to simplify the deployment of open source clusters.

Journalists at the Olympic Games 2008 in Peking report that they do not have unrestricted Internet access. The GPL'd OpenVPN software can easily work around censorship of this kind.

Kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman recently announce the latest stable kernel version. The Minor Update 2.6.26.1 contains bugfixes, updates, and new drivers.

Linus Torvalds has announced the first Release Candidate of the next kernel version 2.6.27 on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML); this signals the end of the merge window.

The makers of Parted Magic 3.0 refer to this as the "most aggressive changelog of any release to date".

LinuxWorld Conference & Expo is next week at the Moscone Center in San Franciso, California.

The developers were criticized for KDE 4.0. At the time, they pointed to KDE 4.1 – and it turns out they were right. The new version is far more stable and mature.

The Debian project has frozen the codebase for the next generation release, Version 5.0 ("Lenny") of its Linux distribution. This rules out any changes to software packages, except where the changes are absolutely necessary for the release.