How to you get the best work from a bunch of highly talented, but prickly and bickering-prone kernel hackers? In this CIO.com piece, Linus Torvalds lists his five central tenets of kernel project management, with his characteristic frankness. "I'd rather flame people for doing stupid things and call them stupid, rather than try to be too polite to the point where people didn't understand how strongly I felt about something."

Amiable Free Software spokesman Bruce Perens has penned an essay looking at Microsoft's recent support of the Apache web server project. Microsoft has joined the Apache project as a platinum sponsor, committing $100,000 a year to the software that competes against its own IIS product.

But will it placate those who grumbled about the lack of whiz-bang end-user features in 4.0? Head over to this page for the official release announcement, screenshot party and list of new goodies.

"Changing the world one computer at a time" is no mean feat, but that's what the CherryPal wants to do. This $249 machine will sport, according to The Register, a 400MHz Freescale CPU, 4GB of Flash storage and 256MB of RAM. The OS is supposedly a Debian derivative, although CherryPal cheerfully boasts that there's "no operating system to deal with".

Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond Kent Linux User Group's control, their Dover venue is different from the venue advertised in Linux Format.

Yes, there's another contender in the netbook (subnotebook in oldspeak) market. The Gdium has a 10" screen, 900MHz CPU and 512MB of RAM, plus the not-really-explained 'Gayaplex'. It'll run Mandriva Linux via a USB flash drive known as a G-Key, which means you can move between different Gdiums while keeping your OS settings and data.

In what is, perhaps, finally, at long last, a speck of light at the end of the tunnel, SCO has been ordered to pay 2.5 million dollars to Novell following lots of courtroom fun. One Slashdotter ponders if this means bad news for Sun's OpenSolaris...

Kevin Thompson has been in touch with details on his new website, TuxSoftware.com. Like the recently launched Linux App Finder, the site aims to make it easier for Linux users to find programs and install them with a few mouse clicks. Read on for Kevin's lowdown on the site...

MSI is trying. Acer is trying. Everex is trying. But Asus is about to face the biggest competition yet for its bewilderingly large Eee PC range -- the Dell E. With a possible August launch date in the US, the E could make a big impact on the market with Dell's marketing muscle. Especially if the $299 price point turns out to be true. Any guesses what that will be in UK pounds?

Over at Groklaw, Sebastian Kügler has posted 11 myths about KDE 4 and why they're not true. Kügler addresses the oft-repeated remarks that the KDE 4.0 release was a mistake, that the desktop should fork, and that Plasma needs to go to the big bin of tech bloopers.

Freshmeat, SourceForge, Gnome Desktop, KDE-Apps... there are loads of ways to find Linux programs, but this new App Finder site aims to be a one-stop-shop for your software needs. It also includes a handy Alternatives list for those who've made the bold move from Windows or OS X, and need to find replacements for their favourite apps.

Hans Reiser, the filesystem programmer who was recently found guilty of murder, has revealed the location of his wife's body to police in California. With this development, Reiser's sentence could be reduced to 15 years to life, rather than 25 years to life before he cooperated with the police.

Mozilla has scooped up an award from the Guiness World Records team -- the most downloads from a website in a 24-hour period. During Firefox Download Day, 8,002,530 users snagged a copy of the new 3.0 release of the open source browser. According to online metrics company Net Applications, Firefox 3 already has a 6% bite of the browser market share cake.

Just when you thought the post-8.04-release hype had died down, now Ubuntu 8.10 (the Intrepid Ibex) is raising eyebrows around the net. Linux Loop summarises five planned changes for the October-bound release, such as better Flash support and per-directory encryption.