Ark Linux has released its first stable version: after 3 years of development and testing, the Ark Linux team have decided to release the first stable version, Ark Linux 2005.1.

"It's a sad day when an ancient fork bomb attack can still take down most of the latest Linux distributions." Read through this article at Security Focus for more.

'Obfuscation' is to make something difficult or unusually obscure. One of the ironies of Ruby programming is the general desire of Rubyists to believe that a goal to accomplish readability in code overshadows even at times its functionality. At times to the point of obsurdity. Enter the International Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest with prizes up to $750.

Nikolaos S. Karastathis of Wikinerds has interviewed Marcus Brinkmann, one of the main Hurd developers. It's an insightful interview into Marcus offering a look at how he got started hacking in general and on the Hurd in particular, his version of the recent history of Hurd development, and where he thinks the Hurd is going (hint: away from Mach and towards L4). The presentations from the Hurd developers' mini-Symposium at FOSDEM 2005 makes for good supplemental reading.

KMOS, Inc. announced that it has completed all registrations to change its corporate identity to Amiga, Inc. Amiga also announced the launch of AmigaAnywhere version 1.5 and mentions a new Amiga SDK under development. For some background information with regard to this technology and a summary of past developments have a look here. Coming Sunday AmigaWorld.net will arrange a Q&A IRC session with Amiga's CEO.

The lack of a new stable release of Debian GNU/Linux since July 2002 is fuelling the campaigns of many candidates for the project's leadership position, with many pushing for a shorter and more regular release cycle to arrest user departures.