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.

According to a recent online survey, about half of all embedded system developers choose the Linux operating system.

Reviews of O'Reilly's Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think, Prentice Hall's The Official Damn Small Linux Book, and Linux Firewalls: Attack Detection and Response with iptables, psad, and fwsnort from No Starch Press.

Montavista has joined forces with Virtutech and Nomachine to create a virtual evaluation portal.

Developers are currently working on a Debian variant for the lightweight Linux Eee notebook by Asus.

The Dojo Foundation has just released version 1.0 of its Open Source toolkit for Javascript and Ajax.

Just over four months ago, Sun's chief open source strategist, Ian Murdock, revealed the first details of plans for an open source variant of Sun's Solaris operating system. Now the first developer version has been released.