Computerworld UK: "This might sound far from enterprise open source, but the way the Climate Code Foundation is proceeding shows the connection:"

Software Latest Releases: "Since its launch in 2008 by Google, Chrome has been making some dent in the market for Internet browsers. With its rapid development and a focus on practicality and lightness of the user experience, Chrome is fast increasing its share of users."

In this episode, Jason and Dan bring you the latest Ruby and Rails news. They touch on the latest 2.x release of rails, an awesome css plugin, and of course, code from the GitHubs.

Python4Kids: "Having gone through some arduous work on the previous tutorial, this one will be a little gentler. The task we've set ourselves this time is to write another game, a trivia game."

Cyber Cynic: "You could argue that Google's Android, so popular on smartphones now, is the most popular Linux of all right now. There's only one little problem with that: Android has continued to be apart from the Linux mainstream."

Linux User and Developer: "By default, Ubuntu wants to provide just one massive root (/) partition without separate home partitions. This is a mistake, as anyone who's updated or recovered a Linux system should know."

Brycsis: "Bricsys is the first to release a .dwg based CAD software for Linux users. Bricsys NV, the developer of Bricscad, announced today that Bricscad V10 for Linux is now available "

Blog of Helios: "Instead of just posting our current needs, we've decided to open a store of sorts to raise the money we need. We have some cool and useful stuff and more will be added in the next two weeks."

Packt: "In this article by Allan Brito, author of Blender 3D 2.9: Architecture, Buildings, and Scenery, we will take the realism of our scenes to a higher level using textures. With textures, the "magic" really happens!"

Technott: "But according to developers of Sparkleshare, Dropbox has downsides as well: you can't host your own server; it's not open source and has some freaky things in its license agreement"

Phoronix: "Yep, it's only been three years since AMD became public with pushing out NDA-free GPU documentation and register specifications, open-source code for the xf86-video-ati and Mesa drivers, and employed a small set of developers to contribute towards their open-source Linux stack."

Intel Software Network: "There are plenty of interesting application, notably you can do lots of outside-in scenarios with you access your home computers from a cellphone anywhere in the world"

Raleigh, NC - September 7, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Mark Bohannon will join the company as Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Global Public Policy on Oct. 1, 2010. He will lead Red Hat's worldwide team representing the company's interests before policy makers in government, industry consortia, and other venues regarding issues such as technology and innovation policy, open source and standards adoption, intellectual property legislation, government technology initiatives, and tax regulation.

Last month I participated in the third annual CONSEGI conference in Brasília, Brazil. The first CONSEGI conference was organized in 2008, and though it was organized by and for the Brazilian government, it speaks loudly and clearly with an authentic open source voice. In that first meeting, the CONSEGI declaration stated their disappointment in the appeals by several of their ISO/IEC national bodies being dismissed by the ISO and IEC technical management boards in the Standardization of Office Open XML, and criticized the ISO/IEC for "inability to follow its own rules". The declaration called into question credibility of ISO/IEC, with the signers asserting that they will no longer consider ISO standards to be automatically valid for government use. In 2009, CONSEGI hosted the 3rd International ODF Workshop and established the Brasilia Protocol, which commits its signatories to use ODF internally, with each other, and ultimately in their electronic interaction with third parties and the public. (I was a signatory to that protocol representing Red Hat.) And so I was very excited to see what CONSEGI 2010 would set as its agenda.

The "Project Description" of CONSEGI 2010 contained this paragraph which really highlights the answer to the question "why open source?" in Brazil (or in any other Democratic government):

The citizenship vision that goes under CIT (Communication and Information Technology, aka ICT) public politics of the Federal Government has as reference the collective rights and not only the sum of the citizen individual rights.

Think about that for a moment or two...

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Das U-Blog by Prashanth: "This is how I felt when testing Kubuntu 10.04 Trinity. It's a weird mishmash of old-school and new-school KDE."

Tuxradar: "Ubuntu is dominating the mindshare for desktop distros, but there's still a place for rivals � even those built on the Ubuntu foundation � to take things in different directions."

Ubuntu Musings: "Utilities. They're what help make computing a lot easier and more convenient, no matter what operating system you use."

ars Technica: "As browser competition continues to heat up, 2010 looks like the year when the market was repeatedly disrupted."

OStatic: "I did the upgrade, and made the meeting in time to get a cup of coffee on the way. This is how upgrades should work for everything."

Linux.com: "If any of these are true you might be looking at one of the many drawing tablets that can be connected, via USB, to your laptop or PC. These tablets make for a far superior graphic experience, giving the artist much more control over the cursor than with a standard mouse."