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This surely comes as good news to all Ubuntu fans out there. [Canonical][2] today made Launchpad open source under the GPLv3 license. [As promised][3]. If you didn’t already know, Launchpad is a project hosting and collaboration platform for software which provides access through its web interface or through its APIs. Users simply need an account to enjoy the suite of services provided by the then close sourced platform. Bug tracking, code hosting, code review, packaging, translation and community support....

Yup, you read that right. Big boy Microsoft submitted 20,000 lines of code to the Linux kernel community for review and inclusion into the Linux kernel tree. All under the GPLv2 license. The code, made up of 3 Linux drivers will enable all flavours for Linux to run on Windows 2008 through it’s Hyper-V hypervisor technology. Providing better cross platform/vendor support and performance gains. Well, I guess even the giant now realises that it’s time to come out and share....

WordPress 2.8.2 is out. It fixes an important XSS vulnerability. Make sure to upgrade quick before you get hijacked…. Either perform an auto update by going to " tools -> upgrade -> upgrade automatically " or upgrade the old fashion ways by [downloading WordPress][2]. Source: [WP][3] [1]: /wp-content/uploads/2008/08/wordpresslogo.jpg) [2]: http://wordpress.org/download/ [3]: http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/

If you’re a Google fan and use Twitter then you should already be following Google on Twitter. But do you know that Google has an Twitter account for almost all it’s products. iGoogle, Calendar, Reader, Voice, YouTube, Images, yada….. yada… yada…. they all have Twitter accounts! These are the current Twitter accounts by Google. Grabed them off Google’s Blog twitter.com/Google - our central account twitter.com/Blogger{#zzci} - for Blogger fans twitter.com/GoogleCalendar - user tips & updates...

Pull up a console and su as root. [danesh@jackal ~]$ su - Install these packages first. [root@jackal ~]# yum -y install xterm gtk2-devel gnome-keyring libxml2-devel libxslt rpm-devel nss Grab the latest vesion of Adobe AIR from Adobe’s download page. [root@jackal ~]# wget http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/latest/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin Make the .bin file executable by using the chmod command. [root@jackal ~]# chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin Execute the .bin file. [root@jackal ~]# ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin Follow the screens and your install’s complete....