Linux Magazine Online has been talking to Leslie Hawthorn, one of the project managers for Google's hacker scholarship.

Mozilla employee Marc Finkle used the two day open source conference in Brussels, Belgium, to reveal details of Mozilla's mobile browser, Fennec.

Czech kernel developer Pavel Machek wants to be root on his T-Mobile G1 Android Linux mobile phone so that he can exploit security holes simply to extend usability of the phone.

Over the weekend the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) took place in Brussels. In his keynote, Mozilla's Mark Surman hoped for Open Source's success and Debian key contributor Bdale Garbee supported its social contract. As an aside, Debian Lenny's target release date was reconfirmed.

Based on OpenStreetMap and other Open Geodata technology, the Open Route Service now covers the whole of Europe.

Gears is an open source application that allows users offline access to Google's documents and spreadsheets. But not entirely problem-free.

The new version 5.0 of the Google Earth exploratory 3D software provides excursions into ocean depths, to Mars and into the past. The official release will also include a Linux variant.

Counterfeit links are able to deceive the Firefox and Chrome browsers, directing users to unintended websites.