The Linux-Kongress is traditionally where kernel developers exchange honors and advice about new features and enhancements. This year a number of speakers presented performance improvement data and discussed what aspects of Linux can be drawn out even more.

Not long after the release of GNOME 2.8 comes a new version of NScripts. Included are a handful of new ease-of-use functions for GNOME's Nautilus data manager.

Python paterfamilias Guido van Rossum has proposed a multi-year moratorium on the scripting language: no more grammar or semantic changes.

Open Search Server, the free Web and document search engine, is now available in version 1.1.

The Bash shell has long supported extending command completion through scripts. The Bash-Completion package delivers full scripts for Linux commands and is currently available in version 1.1.

The recently released version 2.0 of Moblin elicited significant feedback. One frequently posed question was, why not ext4?

Linus Torvalds has announced RC1 for Linux Kernel 2.6.32.

If it were to go by Project Boot.kernel.org, practially all distros in the foreseeable future would boot off the Internet.