The FTP team at the Debian project have decided that the Affero GPL version 3 licensing (AGPLv3) is consistent enough with the guidelines of the Linux distro that software with the licensing can go into Debian's main archive.

Microsoft veteran Keith Curtis proclaims in his new book that the future belongs to open source.

Mandriva's financial situation appears to be none too rosy. At the end of the year, the distributor will terminate the employment of two of its freelance workers, Adam Williams, effectively the Community Manager, and Package Manager Oden Eriksson.

Opensuse 11.1 is in the starting blocks. With the official version due in December, release candidate RC 1 is available now.

Sun Microsystems has realized the second quarter announced release of version 5.1 of MySQL.

KDE 4.2 Beta1 (a.k.a. "Caterpillar") provides a new user experience: messaging, wallpaper via plug-ins, and Vi input mode for KWrite and Kate.

Free Linux distro openSUSE will from now on release without an end-user license agreement. The project will be using the same license notice as their competitor Fedora.

California embedded software firm LynuxWorks has updated its security and safety kernel to version 2.0, providing multicore support.

According to an announcement on the HandBrake website, the new version 0.9.3 of the Handbrake DVD ripper comes complete with a GUI.