"One of the benefits of the direction that’s been taken with the next release of Ubuntu is that there is no longer a need for a separate netbook edition, says Gerry Carr of Canonical. "The introduction of the new shell for Ubuntu means that we have a user interface that works equally well whatever the form factor of the PC."

Fedora announces the availability of Fedora 15 Alpha which includes the GNOME 3 desktop, LibreOffice and the 2.6.38 kernel.

“We are ready to support OpenStack deployments anywhere starting today.” ~ Jim Curry, General Manager of Rackspace Cloud Builders

Meet the personalities behind PyCon, the community run conference that brings together users and developers of the Python programming language.

The OpenLogic research into new mobile applications found that many iPhone and Android apps containing open source fail to comply with OSS licenses.

Debian receives two out of the seven Linux New Media awards at CeBIT 2011.

Mark Shuttleworth releases the codename for what has until today been referred to as "-O" and what will eventually become Ubuntu 11.10.

Personally I think paying it forward is a more viable way to ensure that open source initiatives succeed. ~Steve Holden, Chairman, Python Software Foundation