Seventy percent drivers, about six percent firmware and sound and many filesytem updates. That's how Linus Torvalds describes the the biggest changes to the new Kernel 2.6.31.

TtyLinux, the Linux distribution that makes minimum demands on hardware , has been updated to version 9.0. Codenamed Rigel, the release comes with upgraded kernel and improved software.

The distribution Frugalware Linux is now available in Version 1.1, codename Getorin. The release includes several updated software packages and is rounded out with the user environment Etoile.

The current Debian Sysvinit boot system will gradually be replaced by upstart due to sysvinit's unreliability, according to Debian boot system maintainers.

The regional data processing center in Germany's Erlangen (RRZR) has released a collection of symbols correlating to diverse IT themes under the Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA.

The new KDE star in Twitter heaven is Choqok. In version 0.6.6 the main developer has changed the color of its icon from blue to green.

The Mozilla Project has updated its roadmap for the coming versions of Firefox. The next big release, Firefox 4.0 with Geko1.9.4 underneath, is scheduled for the end of 2010.