Version 1.9.5 of Codestriker, a Web application that supports code reviewing by geographically distributed teams of developers has just been released. The new version offers sophisticated syntax highlighting.

After some turbulence concerning the status of the foundation and many delays, the free Gentoo project has revamped its Linux distribution and released version 2008.0.

The free Samba project has just released version 3.2 of the file and printer server for Microsoft Windows clients. The team will be moving to the GPL v3 license as of this version.

Jono Bacon recently announced that the LugRadio Live UK show will be the final show. In his announcement, Jono said, "I am massively proud of what we have managed to achieve. Over 100 shows, 7 full-time presenters and countless guest presenters, 200+ hours of audio, 100+ guests, 2million+ downloads, 1000+ forums members, 40000+ forums posts, 5 live events in two countries, 5000+ emails to the show and an incredible community."

While Firefox 3 basks in the glory of its download records, version 3 of Thunderbird is not yet complete.

LiPS (the Linux Phone Standard Forum) and the LiMo Foundation (Linux Mobile), which both seek to promote Linux on the cellphone market, have now official joined forces.

Nvidia has turned down requests for an Open Source graphics driver.

Hardware manufacturer HP has released the source code for its Advanced File System (AdvFS), which it uses for the Tru64 Unix OS under the GPL, along with a Linux reference implementation.

Kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman has invited other kernel developers to sign a petition against closed source kernel modules.

If you can't make it to USENIX next week, you can still participate online. Linux New Media will be broadcasting all talks of the "Invited Talks" track on USENIX '08 via live streaming from June 25 to June 27.