Debian project maintainers who just stop maintaining their software packages and fail to respond to mail are a big problem for the free Linux distribution. Now, Debian is introducing new rules to resolve the issue.

Mono developer and Novell employee Miquel de Icaza reported on the progress being made by Moonlight at the XML 2007 Conference in Boston. Moonlight is the Linux variant of Microsoft’s Silverlight solution.

Software giant Novell has postponed the publication of its figures for the fourth quarter, and for the whole financial year 2007.

US kernel developer Theodore Ts'o will be joining the Linux Foundation for the next two years as Chief Platform Strategist.

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Linux4Afrika collects used hardware in Germany to equip African schools. Linux Magazine editor Markus Feilner went to Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, and other places in Tanzania to hunt down Linux machines.

Following accusations by a US-based blogger that Asus had contravened the GPL, Asus quickly responded by publishing the missing sources.

Cliff Biffle, a US blogger, accuses Asus of infringements against the GPL with the software on ist Eee PC.