Greg Kroah-Hartman's keynote address at the Linux Plumbers Convention 2008 was officially about the Linux Ecosystem, but started as a direct attack on Ubuntu developer Canonical. He claims that the company contributes next to nothing to kernel development.

Ed Schaefer reviews the newest edition of Hacking: The Art of Exploitation.

Several groupware developers have come together to work on Project OpenMapi, an open source API, based on Microsoft's Mapi.

British company Simplexo now offers an open source search engine by the same name, targeted for enterprises. It promises cross-enterprise data searches in a mouse click.

The Sun enterprise established a website, Kenai, which will host its own Open Source project code.

Linux kernel developer John "Warthog9" Hawley assumes the full time role of kernel.org web administrator for the Linux Foundation (LF).

With a development time of at least a year, X.Org will be released today, delayed by almost six months. Developers want to free themselves from dependencies in future versions.

The free library Fastcgi++ Version 1.0, which enables the programming of web applications in C++ language, is now available.