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PHP 5.3.0 released. New features include namespaces, closures, optional garbage collection for cyclic references, new extensions, and there are many bug fixes.

Red Hat seeks to certify the cloud--Q&A. Mike Evans, Red Hat's vice president of Corporate Development, on the company's cloud strategy.

KDE's Aaron Seigo gives sneak peek at version 4.3. Here's a screencast on the upcoming release.

Will Stallman C# warning fall flat? Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation says C# and Mono are a Microsoft conspiracy.

Building a Linux App Store: Can You Help? Isn't there room for one?

Novell's Mono, which aims to create an open source, cross-platform set of tools compatible with Microsoft's .Net programming framework, has made the first, though incomplete public release , of Moonlight, an open source version of Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in.....

The third and last beta of OpenSUSE 11.0 has been announced, and it reportedly fixes over 700 bugs.....

Interesting analysis: A Tale of Four Kernels.....

Strong passwords are no panacea as SSH brute-force attacks rise.....

Awards are on their way for top contributions to open source. Google and O'Reilly are calling for nominations for 2008 open source awards.....Would a synchronized release schedule benefit Linux distros and open source in general?.....Windows or open source is not even the question....Second open source HD movie set for release in May.....

From the recent spate of open source project acquisitions by large software vendors to the increasingly popular model of offering paid ?enterprise? versions of open source software, we?ve all noticed the changes in the open source community. Some consider these trends part of the maturing of the open source software market, while others view these trends as potentially dangerous to fundamental open source concepts.

For those who are worried, things may have just gotten a little worse. Adobe?s announcement of its AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) platform for Linux is the case in point.

Anyone observing the open source community will tell you that open source is growing at an amazing pace. Specifically, the number of applications and the maturity of those applications are growing at an amazing pace. I could have told you that last week, but using anecdotal examples and data I have on hand from the openSUSE project. Now I can tell you that based on a study of 5,122 active and popular open source projects.