WordPress has won the Open Source Hall of Fame CMS 2010 Award. CMS Made Simple, Silverlight and Modx were the winners of the Open Source CMS awards for 2010.

Interestingly, a RedHat developer, Lennart Poettering, has come up with an alternative to the 200 line patch for the Linux kernel which increases the system responsiveness under heavy load.

The Linux kernel has received a significant update to it’s kernel that has reduced the latency by a factor of around ten. The patch is around 230 LOC and is extremely effective in increasing system responsiveness under heavy load conditions.

OpenJDK will make this port Open-Source to the public. It can work wonders with both Apple and Oracle supporting this move. While Apple is offering the Java SE 6, Oracle is at Java SE 7.

Linux Mint 10, the latest incarnation of the popular Ubuntu based distro, is now available for download.

Oracle and Apple have announced that they will be working on OpenJDK which will bring Java SE 7 to Mac OS X

Data is raw and unusable without proper management and handling. Google has stepped into the data management business with its service Google Refine 2.0.

With the killing of OpenOffice.org to the recent lawsuit against Google’s use of Java in the Dalvik VM, Oracle has done enough to raise an outcry form ASF.

The Ubuntu 11.04 team announced three alpha releases instead of the earlier five releases. The new version contains Unity shell and multi-touch and works on ARM.

In Ubuntu 11.04, Rhythmbox music player will be replaced by Banshee. Which one do you prefer – Banshee or Rhythmbox?

apt-fast can speed up apt-get downloads by upto 26 times! Learn on how you can use this.

The Russian government has announced plans to build a government-sponsored operating system to replace Microsoft Windows.

Even though Compiz has no place in GNOME Shell, Canonical has decided that it will use Compiz in Unity for Ubuntu 11.04.

The new system is being tested in three phases out of which phase one and two are already done with. Phase 3 is the last test. The new system has performed.

Jolicloud 1.1 will maintain the HTML5 interface that got it a lot of attention. However it will feature a lot of under the hood changes that should give it a faster boot, battery life and a lot of other features.