Security researchers at Secunia have reported two security bugs in the Rsync synchronization tool and one in the current Linux kernel.

According to a recent online survey, about half of all embedded system developers choose the Linux operating system.

Talking in an interview with InformationWeek Linus Torvalds revealed what features and functions we can look forward to from the Linux kernel in the near future, what direction development will take, and what his views are on the continual accusations by Microsoft.

Oracle has just released the first, major JRuby application, thus demonstrating the viability of the Java port of the Ruby scripting language.

Version 1.0 of Pottymouth, a Python module for HTML processsing has just been released. The tool helps sanitize user input from websites.

The Dojo Foundation has just released version 1.0 of its Open Source toolkit for Javascript and Ajax.

Red Hat has signed the Sun’s Contributor Agreement and TCK License Agreement with the aim of developing an Open Source Java platform for RHEL.