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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.

MindTouch announced yesterday a new incremental release of Deki Wiki 8.05.1 (Jay Cooke) ahead of next week's final release of its popular open source collaboration platform. In addition to general performance improvements, Deki Wiki 8.05.1 also includes new functionality like single sign-on utilizing Apache/IIS authentication modules (experimental) which... allows for easy integration with auth systems like NTLM...

Day four of Ubuntu Open Week was packed with tons of terrific information about various aspects of the Ubuntu project, including getting the popular Linux distribution running on an Eee PC, Packaging in Python, and what the future of the desktop looks like.

It was no surprise that one of the biggest draws of the day was the Q & A session with Ubuntu's founder Mark Shuttleworth. He had plenty to say about the next phase of the project and what users can expect to see in future versions of the distro.