Our sister publication, Linux Magazine Brazil, is providing quasi-real time coverage of INdT's Bossa Conference in both English and Portuguese. Linux Magazine Brazil Editor Pablo Hess is on site at the event in Recife and will be interviewing famous names from the Open Source scene exclusively for Linux Magazine. Read on for his initial report.

Wine, the Windows API for Linux is moving towards the first stable version, 1.0, in its history of 15 years of development.

The Debian Installer team has just released the first beta version of its installer for the next Debian release, Lenny.

Developer Steve Wolter has released Version 1.0 of Libhyphenate, his C++ hyphenation library, and has also written a sample application.

Linux consultant Matthias Kettner has just released Version 1.0 of his Waitmax Software. It gives programs a specified time to complete after terminating them.

The Open Office project has again postponed the release date for the next version of its office software package.

Registration for LugRadio Live is now open. Tickets for the two-day event are $10 and include full access to all talks, the exhibition, evening events, and a free bag o’swag for visitors.

Skype, the free VoIP software, has left beta status and advanced to stable Version 2.0.

The Linux company Red Hat has acquired system integrators Amentra and is now seeking to strengthen its Jboss business unit.

Users can now buy Parallels virtualization software and a package with multimedia codecs by Fluendo from Linspire’s Click'n'Run Warehouse (CNR).