The road to the final version of Ubuntu 9.04 still has the release candidate as its penultimate goal. Not much has changed in it.

Those who operate systems with Ubuntu 7.10 should look into possible update options. As of Saturday, the support for the distribution is no more.

The developers of Sciret have completely re-worked their free Knowledge Management system.

The udev subsystem allows the Linux kernel, together with a userland program, to manage device nodes dynamically, adding and removing them at will. It has now been revealed that the communication channel between the kernel and program fails to authenticate, so that users can assume root privileges.

The eBox project integrates web server, proxy, DNS, LDAP, Postfix, OpenSSL, load balancing and more in their server, which should provide small and medium size businesses comprehensive network infrastructures, and is now available in version 1.0.

San Mateo CA company Untangle has released version 6.1 of its Untangle Gateway Linux distro. Its base package is open source, but its extension applications are commercially priced.

An update for the new, stabler version of Debian 5.0 has appeared over Easter.

Wine is maturing in the bottle: the current version 1.1.19 again offers a multitude of enhancements.

Debian developers have decided: Steve McIntyre has been re-elected as Debian leader for the next legislative period.