Debian GNU/Linux 3.0! Debian GNU/Linux 3.0! Been waiting for this one for a long time. Debian tends to upgrade its components slowly and cautiously, which is great, all things considered, because it means lots of testing and time for security fixes before it actually becomes part of the recommended release. But it also means that the early adopter in me has to wait for things like newer Linux kernels that better support certain hardware features, major revisions of big packages like network and desktop windowing software, and newer apps. Sure, I can break from the latest stable distribution, but then I lose the reassurance that I'm on the same page as the official Debian world, whose very slowness I count on for stability and ease of maintenance. It's a hard life, being an extremely lazy system administrator. :)

Continuing the Great Open Source Summer Release Party: Ogg Vorbis 1.0! Ogg Vorbis 1.0! Ogg Vorbis is a completely open standard for streaming audio. Hooray for openness!

And I mentioned Perl 5.8.0's release yesterday, but it was buried, so I'm mentioning it again. :)