Even if you are not a programmer, you’ve probably heard of Subversion, a powerful tool for managing changes to software projects. Although Subversion is designed primarily for software developers, it can be useful to mere mortals as well.

Clients for Linspire's Click'n-Run Warehouse exist for Ubuntu, Freespire, and of course Linspire. Now, the Ubuntu derivative Linux Mint joins the ranks of supported Linux distributions.

The Debian Installer team has just released the first beta version of its installer for the next Debian release, Lenny.

Users can now buy Parallels virtualization software and a package with multimedia codecs by Fluendo from Linspire’s Click'n'Run Warehouse (CNR).

The latest version 2.0 of the Foresight Linux distribution not only has the brand new Gnome 2.22 in its 32 and 64 bit versions, but also its own package management back-end, dubbed Conary.

Suse developer Duncan Mac-Vicar gives a sneak preview of the next generation version of Novell’s Zypper package manager in his blog.

After seven months of development, the highly portable, distribution independent package manager RPM 5.0.0 has now been released.

The Opensuse project is collecting ideas for a visual rework of the Yast management tool.