Red Hat has launched a cloud partner program and Amazon is the first to join. But what exactly does the move mean to Red Hat partners and Amazon Web Service users? Here’s the scoop from The VAR Guy.

Richard Stallman, speaking at MIT in 2006. GNU project founder Richard Stallman has called on developers to pull back from Mono, arguing that increasing use of the open-source toolset could prompt legal action by Microsoft.

Fedora is a giant among giants, in the shadow of a giant from which it was born. But every giant is born of humble beginnings. So to understand the giant, you first have to understand from where they came. So let me take you through a short history of Fedora, and show you where it all began, and some of the interesting, if not curious steps that it took to become what it is today. To start with the very deepest roots, we need to look to the kernel that makes Fedora what it is: The Linux Kernel. That was first introduced in 1991 by a then college student named Linus Torvalds.

According to wordnetweb.princeton.edu, Computer Science is “the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures”. It’s the study of computer architectures, languages, and mathematical structures as applied to the process of computing. So what have Campbell, et al produced in this book…a Computer Science textbook that teaches Python? Kind of. Imagine you wanted to learn how the computer is used in the various scientific disciples. Further, you wanted to learn how computer programs and programming is used in this context to construct tools, perform investigations, and to solve problems. You also want to use a single programming language as your example. Welcome to “Practical Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Python”. Not a book about learning Python as such, but an introduction to the discipline of Computer Science with Python as your guide.

Sugar Labs has issued a LiveUSB version of its “Sugar” Linux distribution and educational software, used by One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)’s XO-1. “Sugar on a Stick v1 Strawberry Learning Platform” can be plugged into any netbook or PC, offering 40 activities designed for K-12 students.

KDE e.V. President, Aaron Seiger, is calling for help to rescue freedesktop.org. Seigo warns of the danger of the free open source software platform sliding into insignificance and he’s appealing to community members for help.

FISL 2009 Wrapup – 3 talks, 1 talk show, 14 blogs, 10 videos, 275 pics, 2 GlassFish production stories Posted by arungupta on June 30, 2009 at 10:53 AM FISL 2009 wrapped up over the weekend.

From the dept.:
The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes a large number of new features and bug fixes.

Some of the key new features include: namespaces, late static binding, closures, optional garbage collection for cyclic references, new extensions (like ext/phar, ext/intl and ext/fileinfo), over 140 bug fixes and much more.

From the Expecting Chrome Release Announcement in 3…2…1 dept.:
Things move quickly online, and weâ??ve beefed up the engine that runs Firefox to make sure you can keep up: Firefox 3.5 is more than twice as fast as Firefox 3, and ten times as fast as Firefox 2.* As a result, Web applications like email, photo sites and your favorite social networks will feel snappier and more responsive.

The New PCLinuxOS Magazine, which comprises volunteers from the PCLinuxOS community is proud to announce the release of it’s July 2009 edition. This edition brought forth several decisions from the new crew to bring it forth to a monthly release and the selection of a new Chief Editor, Paul Arnote aka parnote.