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eWeek has posted an insightful interview with Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch. Though Adobe's approach to open source wasn't the entirety of the piece, Lynch made several statements illustrating that he really understands -- and appreciates -- what opening code can bring to an application.

Some of Adobe's open source efforts may not feel as though they are coming fast enough, or even feel open enough, presently. But Lynch's explanations of Adobe's position on open source, and how it may be changing, seem logical and encouraging.

This week the GNOME Desktop team officially released GNOME version 2.24. This release incorporates numerous bugfixes and impressive new features, including the first release of the GNOME Mobile Platform.

The GNOME Mobile Platform will naturally be of greater interest to developers, and the GNOME team is preparing to make virtual machine images of various mobile platforms available for improved testing.

Good OS, the maker of gOS, which many people know for offering the Linux operating system featured in the Everex CloudBook, Sylvania g netbook and other NetBooks, has announced the final release of gOS 3 Gadgets, the third version of its platform. With this new version, the company is aiming to attract hardware manufacturers, and there is a strong focus on the fast growing category of netbooks.

Three years after its last major release, Rockbox 3.0 is now available. This popular app is a great open source solution for replacing the firmwear on many types of portable media players including Sansa, iRiver, Archos, and iPod.

Projity, creators of OpenProj--the open source answer to Microsoft Project, has been acquired by SERENA Software......

A chat with Theodore Tso, chief platform strategist at the Linux Foundation.....

Prestashop, Ubercart and Magento: The new breed of open source e-commerce.....

How Europe and the U.S. differ in open source approaches.....

Funambol's open source mobile sync app for the T-Mobile Android G1 phone.....

Gentoo Linux has had a rough time of it the last few years. James Bellenger has briefly detailed the migration from Gentoo, and some reasons why it is occurring. He wonders where all the Gentoo users are going.

Matt Asay at CNET suspects Ubuntu's rising star is responsible for the exodus rather than Gentoo's lack of strong leadership.

Having used both distributions extensively, and strongly preferring one, I agree with Asay when he says that given Ubuntu's popularity, Gentoo's stats seem far less impressive. That could be said about thriving distributions when compared to Ubuntu.

There's been a lot of talk about the gigantic particle accelerator known as the Large Hadron Collider recently. Lots of people were excited about the search for the theoretical Higgs boson. A few were concerned that it would open a black hole and end life as we know it. Most were disappointed when technical issues forced the Collider's early shutdown for repairs. Few people, though, mentioned that part of the multi-billion dollar project relies heavily on Linux.