EPEL, Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux, is available to Red Hat Enterprise Linux users. To quote the documentation, it "was started because many Fedora contributors wanted to use the Fedora packages they maintain on Red Hat Enterprise Linux". If you need a package not supported by RHEL, chances are that you'll now be able to find it in the EPEL repository.

SugarCRM has announced that they're switching to the GPL v3 for the Sugar Community Edition 5.0, due to be released in september. Earlier version are available under the Sugar Public License (based on the Mozilla Public License), and a FAQ is available about the change.

Who ever thought that Microsoft would ever serve an URL with opensource in it? Well, it happened, and it's not even an open source bashing site.http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/ is about Microsoft collaborating with the open source community.

Willian Hurley form BMC announced the launch of BMC's developer network and 4 open source projects under a BSD license: adapters for Altiris, CiscoWorks, LANDesk Asset Manager and HP's OpenView AssetCenter to transfer data from data repositories to configuration management systems.

If you're looking for a framework to develop web applications in Python, there's Django. The Django Master Class given duting this year's OSCON is available online with notes.

YSlow is a Firefox 2.0 add-on (requiring Firebug) rating the performance of a webpage based on Yahoo!'s Exceptional Performance team's best practices. It's been developed by Yahoo and is available under the MPL with parts under the BSD license.

Webkit, the HTML engine developed by Apple for its Safari browser, and based on KHTML, will be integrated in Trolltec's Qt library.

The effort, started in may, and located at llrp.org, produces the LLRP toolkit under the Apache 2 license, and proposes solutions for several languages. It got the support of several organisations, including IBM and the University of Arkansas. the latter is home of the TagCentric project, a basic open source Java-based RFID middleware toolkit.

Version 0.7 of the LLRP Toolkit was released on july 20, and is available for download from Sourceforge.

A first version of IronRuby is now available under Microsoft's short Permissive License. More info in John Lam's blog.

Intel released the multicore development tool under the GPLv2, with a runtime exception that enable companies to embed it in their proprietary products.The threading building blocks is a high level, task based library easing thread use in C++ applications.

Source: CNet news.com.