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A robotic submarine driven by Debian has won first place in the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) competition run at a U.S. Naval facility. The Debian project lauds the participating undergrads from Cornell University.

With his GPL-Violations.org initiative, Harald Welte has often interceded on the behalf of GPL licensing. His current bone of contention is NetGear's WNR3500L "open source" router.

As a source debugger for diverse programming languages such as C, C++ and Pascal, GNU Debugger 7.0 now supports the corresponding Darwin for Mac OS X.

The Apache HTTP server version 2.2.14 incorporates significant bug fixes.

Christian Perrier (Bubulle) issued statistics in his blog that show which countries of the world have the largest per capita Debian developers. First place goes to Finland.

The free software monitoring software Monitorix is available in version 1.4.0. New among the features is a plaintext version.

3D design applications are somewhat an anomaly among Linux. Sweet Home 3D proves that good, free programs now exist in that market.