If you’ve ever considered throwing together a mailing list to keep the members of your group, project, or organization informed, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better application for that purpose than PHPList, a free and open source newsletter manager.

The nature of my work forces me to be something of a digital nomad — my notebook computer and a wireless connection are essential parts of my working day. I’ve been known to move between several wireless access points in one day. While I’ve had never had any problems with the wireless cards in my Linux-powered notebooks, most of the wireless connection tools I’ve used have fallen a bit flat. One of the few wireless connection managers that I’ve actually found useful is wicd — the Wireless Interface Connection Daemon, pronounced”wicked.” It’s a lot like the Windows wireless network connection tool in both appearance and ease of use.

Open Source methodology has gained some ground in one of the last places you and I might expect: In the development area of corporations. Consultants are calling environments like Sourceforge Enterprise Edition a Digital Development Environment.

Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier href="http://www.linux.com/feature/118198">wonders if we need an open
hardware license. “Nokia researcher Jamey Hicks recently proposed a
Open Source Hardware License (OSHL) for approval by the Open Source
Initiative (OSI). Is there a need for a hardware-specific license? If so,
what makes hardware different from software?”

PDM is a small document management system. It uses
an HSQL database and provides different users,
scanning from SANE and TWAIN, and archiving from
files. You can print, mail, and open your
documents directly from the application, and store
what ever file type you want.

bench is a tool that times how long an application
was running. It can be used to test algorithms for
speed changes, since it counts in microseconds.

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Data Crow is a movie, video, book, software, and
music cataloger and database. It uses FreeDB, Amazon, IMDB, and other Web services to retrieve the information for you. It is highly customizable, easy to use, and feature rich. It allows you to create reports, easily maintain your collection(s), and keep track of your loans. It supports DVDs, audio CDs, and many audio and video file formats.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
This release allows users to create their own modules and share them with other users.

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CorneliOS is an easy-to-use and cross-browser “Web Desktop Environment”, “Web Operating System”, or “Web Office” that comes with a set of cool applications. It includes a Content Management System (CMS) so that you can easily set up and manage your own website as well as a Database Management System that allows you to rapidly build any kind of database application.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
This release prepares the upcoming 0.7.8 generation by removing PDF files from the /csr directory (as the entire documentation shall become available in wiki format), and by offering a wiki application handler prototype (will offer wiki display and wiki editing) and a user registration handler prototype (will allow user registrations and retrieving lost passwords online). This release also includes prototype mailing list SQL definitions.

xen-tools is a collection of scripts that allow
you to manipulate virtual images for the Xen
virtualization software. With the tools installed,
you may create new instances of Debian, complete
with networking, OpenSSH, and user accounts, with
one simple command. Images may also be easily
updated, listed, or deleted.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
This release supports the installation of RPM-based distributions via the external ‘rinse’ tool, which is more reliable than the ‘rpmstrap’ utility. New guests will now have a random MAC address generated by default, to avoid issues with udev, and several other minor bugfixes were applied.

Decibel is a realtime communications framework,
meant to integrate services like CTI (Computer
Telephone Integration), VoIP (Voice over IP), text
based chat, and instant messaging. End users find
in Decibel one central place to manage all
realtime communication settings and can easily
configure and change responses to communication
requests. It provides a simple, DBus-based API to
the services like communication account management
and connection to contacts.

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License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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Changes:
Support for logging channels including setup time, connect time, and closing time. This release works better with channels supporting the Telepathy Group interface.