Music seems to be a viable income stream also under Linux. After Amarok and Rhythmbox have earned at least a few hundred bucks with Magnatune, Ubuntu is now breaking into the market as well.

On the Ubuntu developer mailing list, Alberto Milone warns testers of the alpha version of Ubuntu 10.04 about problems with the resident NVIDIA driver versions 195.36.08 and 195.36.03.

The Debian project was given a new server from Thomas Krenn AG, Intel and Adaptec for its image building. With the Dual-Xeon computer the build process was reduced from 20 to two hours.

The French Linux distributor Mandriva, has updated its Enterprise Server 5 that first appeared mid 2009.

Mark Shuttleworth had a dream: the big Linux distros should agree to have version numbers identical to those of kernel components and refresh them every two years. The dream now is more real than ever.

For the past four weeks, candidates have been applying for the position of Project Leader at Debian. Four candidates have made it to the last round.

Google has brought a new website online where users can run the Sputnik JavaScript test suite.

The SystemRescueCd, a Live CD for troubleshooting computers, comes with new boot methods in version 1.4.0.