Top 5 iPod alternatives for Linux users. Sansa Fuze anyone?

Free software for all Russian schools in jeopardy. The plan, announced last year, to wheel out free software in schools faces opposition.

10 open source projects worth checking out. They range from OpenBravo to Magento.

Great documentation is key to open source success. The documentation should teach, and show examples of what can be done.

There is more good news for open source on the venture capital front. Following record inflows for venture capital into open source for the first quarter, The 451 Group is reporting that VC funding levels rose again in the second quarter as compared to last year. Funding rose just under 14 percent to $115 million, compared to $101.5 million in 2007. Here's the really striking stat: "Total funding for the first half of the year to date stands at $321.3 million, up 62 percent over the first half of 2007, just shy of the $328.5 million raised in the whole of last year."

Fedora 9, the community-driven Linux distribution from Red Hat is out. Bruce Byfield has some interesting thoughts on it.....

Openbravo, developer of web-based open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Point-of-Sale (PoS) solutions has received $12 million of second round funding.....

Ingres OpenROAD, the company’s platform for rapid application development, is now open source.....

InformationWeek has an interesting interview with Microsoft's open source chief Sam Ramji.....

Open-Xchange and Parallels are integrating Open-Xchange open source e-mail and collaboration software with Parallels.....