The Debian project has adopted a code of conduct for participants to its mailing lists, IRC channels, and other modes of communication within the project. The main points of the code are:

• Be respectful
• Assume good faith
• Be collaborative
• Try to be concise
• Be open

From the OpenBSD Journal and the release page :

As you can now easily tell from the OpenBSD main web site, OpenBSD 5.5 has been released.

Looking at the release announcement and other sources such as the release page , it's easy to see that there are numerous goodies in store for you:

• A whole new traffic shaping system to replace ALTQ
• Cryptographically signed base sets and packages
• Automatic installation features
• Improved hardware support, and more

Also, from OpenBSD 5.5 onwards, OpenBSD is year 2038 ready and will run well beyond Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC. The entire source tree (kernel, libraries, and userland programs) has been carefully and comprehensively audited to support 64-bit time_t.

Tails , a Debian-based live operating system known for its strong privacy features and pre-configured for anonymous web browsing, has released version 1.0 after nearly five years of development. The version 1.0 release, in addition to being an important milestone in the development of the project, addresses a number of security updates over the previous version. This also marks Tails' 36th stable release since its initial public release in June of 2009.

For more on Tails 1.0, a brief history of the OS and a complete changelog , read the official release announcement on the Tails home site . Distrowatch has information regarding current and previous releases of Tails. Downloads, both direct and torrent, and installation instructions are available here .

Phys.org reports :

A robotic space plane is speeding in low Earth orbit at this very moment. Some say it's a weapon; others, a data-gathering mission. There's one fact most agree on as the plane hits 500 days in space: Its real purpose is a mystery.

The Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Space Vehicle, constructed in California, is one-fourth the size of the Endeavour Space Shuttle.

Whatever its real purpose, the X-37B has very real capabilities. It travels low in orbit, staying around 110 to 500 miles above the Earth at a cruising speed of about 17,500 mph. It's equipped with special heat-shield tiles for re-entry, which are billed by Boeing as tougher than Endeavour's.

But the government's treatment of the project poses questions. Though it's advertised as a secret project, Boeing releases pictures and more than two pages of details on the X-37B. In contrast, the secret, super-fast Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird was not declassified until decades after it had been used in the Vietnam War.

More pictures and speculation can be found at Extremetech .