The Opensuse Team has just released the second beta of version 11 which is scheduled for June.

A new version of the VirtualBox virtualization software has just been released: the major update 1.6.0 supports Solaris and Mac OS X as host systems.

Unfortunately, there are two bugs contained in the Ubuntu version included on the Linux Magazine Issue #90 DVD Virtual Distro Sampler. For more information and suggested workaround, please visit the Issue 90 DVD page.

The Open Office fans from Ooo42 have updated their enhanced Oxygen Office version to 2.4.

In the scope of the Open Screen project Adobe has facilitated the use of Flash on mobile devices. At the same time, Adobe now offers the SWF and FLV specifications as a PDF download.

The Gnome project has published plans for 2.24 and future versions of its desktop environment.

The KDE project released the first alpha version of KDE 4.1 yesterday; the official release date for the final version is late June this year.

After porting its Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) and Workbench developer environment to Sun's multithreading capable UltraSPARC T2 processor, embedded specialist Wind River says that it has laid down the tracks for the development of high-performance network components.

Andrew Morton, the Linux Kernel 2.6 maintainer announced last week at the Embedded Linux Conference in Mountain View that he is looking for an architecture-independent embedded specialist.

The X.org developers are working on moving a less prominent component from userspace to kernel space: mode setting controls.