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

The Thunderbird team at Mozilla has initiated a new project, Raindrop, for open messaging and are presenting a first prototype.

With its new dashboard, Google wants to improve its image as to user privacy and demonstrate more transparency and control.

A null-pointer dereference in the Linux kernel allows local users to assume root privileges. Brad Spengler, who claims first discovery, announced that he will present a corresponding exploit during the course of the day.

Tailbeep is a simple administration tool that sends an audible beep when it finds a specified search string in a log file. Version 0.45 now includes an interface to the Festival speech synthesis framework.

The Zenoss Core free monitoring suite is available in a new version 2.5.

The famous Unix admin utility known as Top has many imitators. We take a look at some of the top Top tools.

A few RPM developers from Red Hat and Novell met at the openSUSE Conference 2009 in September. The results of the meeting are now online.

Two French developers have introduced a configuration software for Intellon-based Power Line Communication devices (PLC) at the 25c3 in Berlin. Simultaneously, the developers declared the software, called Faifa, as Open Source.

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is holding ApacheCon US 2009 from November 2-6 in Oakland, California. The foundation for a free webserver is also celebrating its 10th birthday. In honor of this 10th birthday, the celebration includes three days of the conference program available as a FREE Live stream.

Finnix, a LiveCD Linux distro for system administrators, is available in version 93.0.

The Subversion version control system is now part of the Apache Software Foundation.