A regatta for unmanned robot sailing craft will be starting from Aberystwyth, Wales, in September. "Roboat", a Linux-powered craft by the Austrian Society for Innovative Computer Sciences (InnoC), will be one of the starters in Microtransat 2007.

Linux inventor Linus Torvalds says there's no need for Kernel 3.0.

If you want to promote the use of open source software, you might like this innovative approach out of Africa – comic strips.

Two legal experts have recently joined the Linux Foundation team: Karen Copenhaver, a specialist for Open Source licenses and Andy Updegrove, an expert for open standards.

US distributor Linspire has finally released version 2.0 of its free Linux variant Freespire, three months behind schedule.

Kevin Carmony has quit his position as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with software vendor Linspire.

Does the kgdb debugger still stand a chance of making it into the kernel? It might make it into the next release but one.

Klaus Knopper still has big ideas for the little distro that has spawned many derivatives and changed the way we think of live Linux. I asked Klaus about the past, present, and future of Knoppix.