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A bug surfaced recently in the pre-release versions of the 2.6.27 Linux kernel (up to 2.6.27rc7). The bug affected the e1000e driver module, which supports a number of onboard Intel ethernet adapters. The driver would corrupt the EEPROM/NVM of adapters with ICH8 and ICH9 chipsets, rendering them useless.

The silver lining was that since the kernel is a pre-release, only distributions with releases in the alpha or beta stages, or custom compiled testing kernels, were affected. The Intel team released a patch Wednesday to prevent further damage.

LinuxLoop has a look at gorgeous early renditions of some of the artwork under consideration for inclusion in Fedora 10. Though still grounded in its historical blue, these themes are a real departure from the bubbles and hot-air balloons of past releases.

Forget special sale prices on calculators and dorm room furniture, Fedora has the ultimate back-to-school offer -- a scholarship program for college-bound students who contribute to free software and the Fedora Project.

It's only been a couple of months since Fedora 9 was released and already there's an alpha version of Alpha 10 (codenamed Cambridge) on the horizon. Though the final version isn't slated for release until November of this year, developers are calling on the community to put this new version though its paces and offer up some feedback.

While the rest of the world is knee-deep in webinars, Skype-based teleconferences, and other Web 2.0 -ish forms of real time communication, most of the Linux community still relies on IRC, wikis, and opt-in email lists to get things done. At FUDCon last month, the Fedora community announced a new way of helping members and developers communicate with each other: Fedora Talk

Bryan Che, part of the project management team at Red Hat, started a new project at Fedora this week called Nightlife. Based on the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Condor Project, Nightlife will give people the ability to donate idle capacity from their own computers to an open, general-purpose Fedora-run grid for processing socially beneficial work and scientific research that requires access to large amounts of computing power.

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 companyοΎ’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.....

A new version 9 of Fedora, the community maintained Linux distro that's the foundation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux is out, as is analysis.....

OpenOffice's new beta--compatibility problems with MS Office XML formats?.....

Vidoop hires dream team open source veterans.....

Does the market have irrational expectations for open source?.....