SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The Linux Foundation has announced the creation of LinuxCon, a new annual technical conference that will be produced in the spirit of open source development — for the community, by the community. The Foundation today is also announcing the details for important Linux events including its annual Collaboration Summit and the Kernel Summit.

In future releases, Gentoo will focus on a more back-to-basics approach that will give you up-to-date install media on a regular basis and make much better use of our human resources. The Gentoo team is looking into automated weekly builds of the minimal CDs and stage tarballs as well as maybe an annual LiveCD release. Gentoo will provide updates as they decide on the details of this new approach.

LONDON – Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, is asking users of Ubuntu Server edition just exactly how they are using it and in what kind of organizations.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The Linux Foundation has said that the CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, has become a member of the Foundation.

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. – When it comes to leading edge or High Performance Computing, open source developers overwhelmingly say they would recommend using commercial versions of Linux over non-commercial versions, according to the latest Evans Data Corp Open Source Software and Linux survey. A similar number would also recommend commercial versions over non-commercial for mission-critical large enterprise development and data center development. Non-commercial Linux is preferred for web development and embedded systems.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The Linux Foundation has said that Black Duck Software has joined as a Foundation member. Black Duck provides solutions for software development teams and legal counsel to manage the hybrid software development process, which involves the assembly of internal software, open source software and other third-party code.

Linus Torvalds, the creator of the operating system phenomenon Linux, tells the story of how he went from writing code as a graduate student in Helsinki in the early 1990s to becoming an icon for open source software by the end of the decade.

WALTHAM, Mass. – Microsoft and Novell have announced an incremental investment in their relationship to meet accelerating customer demand for their business model solution, which is designed to build a bridge between open source and proprietary software to deliver interoperability and intellectual property (IP) peace of mind for organizations operating mixed-source IT environments.

SAN FRANCISCO – The Linux Foundation has published an important new guide to participating in the Linux kernel community. The 30-page book was written by noted Linux authority Jonathan Corbet.

San Francisco, California – gOS, the Linux OS known for its debut in the $199 Wal-Mart gPC and NetBooks, has announced the release of the newest version of its Linux operating system for consumers, called gOS 3 Gadgets. gOS will demonstrate a beta version of the OS on a variety of NetBooks and NetTops at LinuxWorld.