The smallest kernel, put together thanks to a collection of patches by the Linux-tiny project, weighs in at just 197KB. After two years of inactivity, maintainers Michael Opdenacker and other developers are looking to breath new life into the project.

The PHP development environment, PDT (PHP Developing Tools) integrates seamlessly with the Eclipse development environment.

Really Fair - Really Simple, Really Fair - Really Unfair: three schedulers are the topic of current discussions on the kernel mailing list.

The Jython project has released version 2.2 of its Java-based interpreter for the Python scripting language.

Collaboration with Novell on virtualization and Web service management, and quality of interaction between Windows and Samba are the next topics that Microsoft's Linux developer, Tom Hanrahan, will be focusing on.

Sun Microsystems is changing its stock exchange ticker symbol from SUNW to Java. The new NASDAQ ID will be introduced August 27.

Programmer Marc Perkel gave kernel developers something to think about with his proposal for a new filesystem.