This year's OSCON conference attracted many key players of the Open Source community, who presented the latest developments.

Debian developers from around the world gathered in Finland to exchange ideas and have a good time at this year's Debian Developer's Conference.

Free software covers such a diverse range of utilities, applications, and other assorted projects that it can be hard to find the perfect tool. We pick the best of the bunch. This month, we discuss Ubuntu, Debfoster, and Deborphan.

More keynotes on technological and politics, and more room for free projects: this was Linuxtag in its eleventh year. But attendance was down because Europe’s biggest Free Software event charged an admission fee for the first time.

The conference sessions were less than inspiring, but the show had plenty of chemistry.

The annual winter meeting of Europe’s open source developers took place February 25-27 in Brussels, Belgium. Again the event was a mustn’t miss for thousands of contributors to free projects and a welcome opportunity for developers to exchange ideas outside the borders of their own communities.

Linux fans live in a special world,so it makes sense for them to have their own special star signs. If you too were born under the influence of Open Source,read on as the 2005 Linux Magazine Horoscope reveals the secrets of your future.

This column looks into projects and current affairs in the world of free software from the perspective of the GNU Project and the FSF. In this issue,we focus on communication programs for mobile telephones.