A new release of the Nautilus graphical shell and file manager is available. There have been many improvements since Nautilus 1.0.3 was released, mostly speedups and bug fixes.

Ransom Love caused a stir recently after saying he was sympathetic to Microsoft's view that the licence that governs much open source development suffocates business growth.

Boston-based recruitment consultant Hollister Associates is looking for a technical project leader, to lead a team of four engineers "to design and develop a fault tolerant version of Linux on Stratus' Fault Tolerant IA-32 architecture".

"I have just read an incredible article about an exchange between Caldera's Ransom Love and Richard Stallman. Forgive me for interjecting myself into another's fight, but I think this has gotten so tied up in "personality" that it is time to interject the little guy back into the discussion."

The newer releases (4.1+) utilize LVBs and the older releases (4.0.1 and prior) do not which leads to a situation where GFS filesystems created before 4.1 need to be updated/upgraded to support this feature (i.e. pre-4.1 created GFS filesystems are not compatible with GFS v4.1+ unless they are update/upgraded).

"Already, leading legal scholars, including Stanford University's Lawrence Lessig, are praising the decision for offering (as Lessig put it) "smart and innovative" rules concerning antitrust regulation in the digital era. The big question is this: Will the decision change Microsoft's behavior?"

This documentation is designed to serve as a brief introduction to the Red Hat Package Management system, or RPM. Part 1 will cover installation of RPM packages, while part 2 will cover building your own RPM packages for distribution.

The latest stable release in the 2.4 series is out.

"A well-marketed Open Source database (like the one Red Hat proposes) could potentially do more to cement the hold of Open Source software in the enterprise than the Linux OS itself. In effect, it would transform Linux into a complete Open Source Web applications platform, to compete with commercial offerings from the likes of Sun, Oracle or Microsoft."

According to Red Hat VP and Managing Director Mark White, Linux software developers in mainland China are acting against the spirit of open-source programming by not sharing their modified source code.