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The main track talks from the FOSDEM 2008 developer conference are now available free of charge from the Linux Magazine video archive.

The One-Laptop-Per-Child (OLPC) organization is looking for a successor to founder and visionary Nicholas Negroponte; restructuring is already underway. The Linux Foundation, the organization that promotes the interests of Linux as a whole, and of its inventor Linus Torvalds, has a vacancy for a Community Manager.

After 32 years as the maintainer of the Emacs editor, Richard M. Stallman, has assigned the task to two younger developers.

Trolltech is releasing version 4.3.4 of its GUI library under the version 3 of the GPL. Apart from this the makers of Qt have simply fixed bugs in the release.

Market researchers Gartner have just revealed that the world wide server market grew by 7.4 percent in 2007, leading to a 4 percent rise in turnover.

Ubuntu is working on the next but one release, 8.10, codenamed Intrepid Ibex. Ubuntu promoter and Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth launched the next round of development in the traditional way by naming the product.

February 23 and 24, Linux Magazine is streaming the main track of FOSDEM '08 live on the Internet.

The Mozilla Foundation today launched a new company, Mozilla Messaging Inc., which will be focusing on Internet based communications.