Today (June 29) at 12 noon EDT the Free Software Foundation will release the GNU GPLv3. Beyond the creation of an improved license, the process of drafting version 3 has helped highlight vital issues for the community of free software users. This is a moment to thank the thousands who participated by commenting on the [...]

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The first open source driver for the AMD/ATI R500 video cards has been released. The cards that are now supported by this driver are the Radeon X1300 to X1600. However, the drivers are not yet ready for general use. Over the past couple of months, a small group of people has been working on reverse [...]

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Sad news for the Tux500 people, their car was the first to crash at the Indy500. The Tux car came dead last. Tux500 is a community powered effort to sponser a car in the Indy500 race. Interestingly, the Joost sponsored car came in seventh. You can also watch the crash on YouTube. The Linux car, [...]

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PCLinuxOS, a free Linux distribution founded in October 2003, is quickly rising in popularity. On Distrowatch, for the last 7 days PCLinuxOS has even exceeded Ubuntu’s hits. Could this be an indication that PCLinuxOS could overtake Ubuntu in popularity in the future? PCLinuxOS is distributed as a LiveCD, and can also be installed to a [...]

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Microsoft wants money from Linux users for software patent violations. They say how many patents Linux violates (235), but they will not say what these patents are. Is it because they are afraid the violations could be easily fixed? It is much more in Microsoft’s benefit to have the open source community in “its debt,” [...]

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