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.

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

The One-Laptop-Per-Child (OLPC) organization is looking for a successor to founder and visionary Nicholas Negroponte; restructuring is already underway. The Linux Foundation, the organization that promotes the interests of Linux as a whole, and of its inventor Linus Torvalds, has a vacancy for a Community Manager.

The ISO standardization organization meeting convened to discuss OOXML has now come to an end and contradictory reports on the proceedings have caused some concern. So much so, that ISO has now issued a statement.

Literacy Bridge, a non-profit organisation is developing an MP3 player in iPod Shuffle format. The player will cost US$ 5 and the capable of downloading CC-licensed audio files from Linux platforms.

A survey by Thinkpad manufacturer Lenovo and chip manufacturer AMD reveals that European companies are prepared to pay higher prices for power-saving technologies.

After turbulent days in Tanzania, long Linux training sessions at 40 ° C in the shade, the official project start, an unanticipated change in the government and a state visit by the US president, the people behind the Linux4afrika project were happy to welcome a visit by the new prime minister.