Version 4.0 gets an open source plugin

The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) version 4.5 picks up numerous new enhancements, beginning with building the GCC from its sources.

At the beginning of March Plasma hacker Aaron Seigo challenged the community to a KDE miniprograms programming contest. The winners have now been determined.

The first major release of the software since 2001 provides numerous new features.

With the release of GNOME 2.30, various improvements and changes went into the free Linux desktop.

Next delivery of CeBIT videos -- the presentation streams from Thursday, Friday and Saturday of the Open Source Forum at CeBIT Open Source 2010 are available online. Free for all!

Developer Og Maciel is working on a virtual appliance for Django developers. It should include everything you need to work with the Python framework for the Web.

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.

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.