Should free development be a part of free software, or is Apache pioneer Roy Fielding asking too much of Sun? Besides looking at the commercial side of free software, this month's column investigates synchronization of speech and text.

In mid-April, LugRadio Live landed at the Metreon Theater in San Francisco for two days of music, mixing, Linux, and live recording.

The current Ubuntu version is less than a month old, but Mark Shuttleworth has already published plans for the future version in his blog.

Long-standing Debian developer and former Project Leader Anthony Towns has said that he is withdrawing from current projects. The reasons seem to be a disagreement on distribution of tasks within the free Linux distribution.

At CeBIT 2008, the world's biggest computer fair, popular topics included Green IT, mini-PCs, and open source.

Python inventor Guido van Rossum is known to have a good sense of humor and probably had a good laugh when he heard about the Guido van Robot project. If you are learning how to program, or would like to teach others, this software gives you a light-hearted introduction.

Three developers have applied for the post of Debian Project Leader (DPL). The current project leader, Sam Hocevar, is not campaigning for re-election.