University students tasked with finding flaws in Unix applications as homework have uncovered 44 bugs. But since the University of Illinois at Chicago students were asked by tutor Daniel Bernstein to find 10 bugs each, most will likely flunk his Unix Security Holes course. The assignment counted for 60 per cent of the marks available to the 25 students taking the course.

The EU council has decided to pass the heavily controversial patent directives on software without any vote or debate. We reported recently that Linus Torvalds and other European Open Source developers called this the single biggest threat to Free and Open Source software.

In the past months we came across a variety of issues that we wanted to discuss with the company that came up with the Mini-ITX form-factor and the EPIA boards. In the past weeks we also collected our readers’ questions and included them in this interview. EpiaCenter.com features an interview with VIA's Werner du Plessis.

Every hard-core OS aficionado has done it: Laid out a grand scheme for creating the perfect OS. Taking all the best features and attributes from the OSes we love, and making sure to assiduously avoid the pitfalls of the OSes we don't. Maybe our goals were modest, and we just wanted a slightly tweaked version of an existing OS. But sometimes we're feeling ambitious, and we have large, creative ideas for revolutionizing computing. Long-time OSNews reader and contributor J. Scott Edwards just couldn't help himself, and he has set about to not only plan, but to try to build his dream OS.