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.

Good-bye, Oracle: XML coauthor Timothy William Bray did well to control his anger toward the new Sun owners and accepted a job at Google -- raving about Android.

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 quite some time the Nexuiz homepage has been hinting at a major announcement in March. Now the cat is out of the bag and hitting the community over the head.

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.

Whosoever has played with the idea of programming a KDE miniprogram now has the opportunity to win a Nokia N900. The Plasma JavaScript Jam Session runs until the end of March 2010.

The Perl Project is presenting its work more often at events, opening up for the community. CeBIT Open Source was one opportunity, and Perl member Gabor Szabo was giving an interview to Linux Magazine Online.

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