Linux company Red Hat is hosting the third developer conference and expo JBoss World February 12 through 15 in Orlando, Florida.

Projity, the company behind the free OpenProj software reports more than 25,000 downloads of the project software within the first week after the release.

Linux distributor Red Hat has discovered a vulnerability in the GNU "tar" program that could allow attackers to overwrite files.

A regatta for unmanned robot sailing craft will be starting from Aberystwyth, Wales, in September. "Roboat", a Linux-powered craft by the Austrian Society for Innovative Computer Sciences (InnoC), will be one of the starters in Microtransat 2007.

The global server market continues to grow with Linux servers playing a major role: for the fifth time in succession, Linux server business achieved double-figure growth in the second quarter of 2007.

Linux inventor Linus Torvalds says there's no need for Kernel 3.0.

Following IBM, Sun Microsystems has now launched a power-saving initiative for servers.

Programmer Marc Perkel gave kernel developers something to think about with his proposal for a new filesystem.

The Plone Foundation has released version 3.0 of its content management software.

Collax has released an update to version 4.2 of its Security Gateway solution. The Unified Threat Management solution (UTM) is now based on kernel 2.6.