EnterpriseMobileToday: "As the launch of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 devices nears, the company has been telling those who will listen that one of its prime competitors' mobile operating system -- Google's Android -- is more costly than its own offering, even though the open source OS is free."

Groklaw: "SCO filed a motion asking for more time to file its appeal brief with the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. They needed 10 more days, and Novell agreed to it, so the clerk signed off on it the same day the motion was filed, and the new date for SCO to file its brief will be September 9."

Tech Drive-in: "Valve is all too familiar with gaming folks out there. They are the guys behind the awesome STEAM online gaming platform. They were in a bit of controversy recently when they denied all reports of a Linux version of their famous online gaming platform. But once again, Valve is in the news."

Datamation: "When I go on to tell them that the KDE desktop is in many ways more innovative than Windows 7, the looks of pity changes to caution. I am not only a fanatic, they conclude, but delusional and potentially dangerous."

Wall Street Journal: "Raymond E. Stauffer was shopping at a New Jersey mall when he noticed something peculiar about the bow ties on display at Brooks Brothers: They were labeled with old patent numbers."

Linux Planet: "Back in Part 1 we learned how flexible and script-able Android is, and installed the SL4A scripting layer. Today Paul Ferrill teaches more about how to write custom Android scripts."

The Gnome Journal: "Chris Lord shares his experiences and six laws of writing simple games for GNOME, using Clutter."

Howtoforge: "Liferay Portal is an enterprise web platform for building business solutions that deliver immediate results and long-term value. Get the benefits of packaged applications and an enterprise application framework in a single solution."

The H Open: "The "best open source software for business" list contains almost exclusively well-known contributors. Is there no more new open source?"

Nach Russland möchte auch die Ukraine Hand an proprietäre Bits und Bytes legen und ein eigenes nationales, auf Linux basierendes Betriebssystem in Umlauf bringen. Ziel ist es, den Haushalt des osteuropäischen Landes zu entlasten.

Die Schweizer Open Systems User Group /ch/open hat ihre diesjährigen Ehrenpreise für Projekte und Personen vergeben, sie sich um Open Source verdient gemacht haben.

Mit der Freigabe der Version 0.7.1 von Schillix kündigte Jörg Schilling, Projektgründer und Maintainer des Projektes, zugleich auch einen künftigen Schwenk auf Illumos an. Das Illumos-Projekt stellt einen Fork von OpenSolaris dar, nachdem Oracle ankündigte, das Projekt sterben zu lassen.

TuxRadar: "Trepidation. That about sums up the feeling of upgrading to a new version of KDE. You want to like it, but are afraid that whatever has been fixed will be counterbalanced by something rather sucky."

Die Rechtsabteilung von Red Hat, die unter anderem auch widerrechtliche Benutzungen des Fedora-Logos verfolgt, sucht nach Beweisen, dass das Fedora-Logo schon vor dem 30. Januar 2007 in Gebrauch war.

Dana Blankenhorn: "Desktop Linux is the same sort of deal. Linux believers always assume that next year will be the year of desktop Linux. Windows followers often chide those who seek Linux with that belief, both here and elsewhere."

Novell hat eine Version des SUSE Linux Enterprise Server vorgestellt, die für die Ausführung unter dem Hypervisor VMware vSphere optimiert ist.

Linux Pro Magazine: "Android App Uses FFmpeg library to decode video "

Cnet: "IBM's newest chip for mainframes boasts one of the highest speed ratings to date and will go into Big Blue's fastest mainframe computers."

Tech Drive-in: "Not many mainstream PC manufacturers have a Linux preinstalled version of their products. But some do have and the there are many other not-so-mainstream providers of Linux preinstalled laptops, netbooks and PC's. Here are a few of them you should know."

Internet Evolution: "Is it possible for four young people, the ink barely dry on their NYU diplomas, to battle a social networking giant and win? Is there enough pent-up anger against Facebook to translate into a wholesale exodus from the site?"