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Welcome to this year's 21st issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. A lot of activity has still been recorded on the debian-release list in order to fix the remaining release-critical bugs and to get the translations into shape. Matt Whipp quoted several people to counter the claim that Free Software is running short of developers.

To really flatten the world, the people responsible for much of today's progress must not just drink from the golden goblets of benefits but must also commit resources and effort in action to those who cannot cross the digital divide on their own.

Finnish cell phone giant becomes the newest computing company to begin offering intellectual property protections to open-source programmers.

Developers of the open source Linux operating system are about to lose a crucial software tool [BitKeeper] that lets them keep track of version changes. The loss could delay Linux development and even make the operating system more vulnerable to security breaches.

The security conscious will be pleased with the decision by BitDefender to extend support to FreeBSD as well as introducing a small business-focused version that runs on most Linux distributions.

As promised, the Scyld Software unit of Penguin Computing Inc has begin shipping its latest release of the Beowulf clustering software that its founders created for the Linux operating system. Last week, Scyld was demonstrating Beowulf Series 29 cz-5 at the BioIT World conference in Boston. With the latest release, Scyld is hoping to significantly increase the use of its software in clusters, and it will be using the $10m in funding it secured in November 2004 to promote Beowulf.

This Eclipse based technology enables automated data binding of SWT components used along with the Java Visual Editor in Rational Application Developer (RAD) 6.0.

Palm's annual developer event keynote speech discusses wireless opportunities, 3G consumer and enterprise data services, and the need for Palm developers to partner with network carriers.

The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet Enables Easy Broadband Access to the Internet Over Wi-Fi

Checking back in with gumstix's expanding product line to see if the original concerns have been addressed and what's possible now with the waysmall modules.

Gadget maker taps Linux for a tiny tablet, as India's government pushes local versions of Firefox and more.

When you're a GNU/Linux or *BSD user, tech support can be a real hassle. Not technical support for your software -- there are newsgroups, mailing lists, and message forums for that -- but support for hardware and services that officially require Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X. If your hard drive dies or your Internet connection goes out, the last thing you want is the support person to hang up on you because you're using a free software operating system or some other "unsupported" variable in your computer or network. How can you successfully deal with clue-challenged phone support people?

Rochester may still be struggling to get iSeries classes on more college curricula across the country, but Big Blue envisions a far rosier reception for its latest educational push: Linux. The IBM iSeries Scholars Program — better known by its old moniker, iSeries Partners in Education (PIE) — has been contending with a lack of student interest that has forced some colleges to drop or drastically reduce their iSeries curriculum.

In a political sense, Microsoft can be seen or perceived as the “Evil Conservative Entity”. They pollute, steal, are convicted monopolists and yet thrive under a capitalist system that protects them from true harm or conviction.

Cell phone maker has diversified with a Linux tablet that uses Wi-Fi, but has no phone.

Content management systems (CMS) continue to grow in popularity as a way for harried IT directors to delegate some of the labor involved with inserting content in company intranets, Web sites, e-commerce systems, and other Web operations revolving around the concept of workflow. With thousands of options available, it's difficult for a CMS shopper to evaluate those options in a timely way. Now companies looking for an open source CMS have a more efficient way to conduct the search, thanks to OpenSourceCMS.com.

64-bit platforms are here. The operating system of choice, Linux, is here. So what does it take to get more widespread adoption of the next generation of processing power? Rob Reilly has a few words of advice for those hardware vendors.

...companies such as Microsoft and Apple argue that they need broader patent protection to prevent open-source companies, which give away their software and make money through service, from effectively expropriating their development costs.

Startup EnterpriseDB unveils an open source-based database that the company claims is comparable, but less expensive, than products from Oracle.

EnterpriseDB CEO Andy Astor saw potential in the PostgreSQL open source database. In fact, this company, which is only one year old, has bet the house on the technology, which has been developed and refined from its infancy at the hands of a few software engineers at Berkeley, Calif., over the course of the past 20 years. Astor's company is releasing a beta version of EnterpriseDB this week. He recently spoke with SearchEnterpriseLinux.com, examining the future of the open source database, which he labels the 'unstoppable force' necessary to weaken the behemoths of the industry, including SQL Server and Oracle.