US distributor Linspire has finally released version 2.0 of its free Linux variant Freespire, three months behind schedule.

Following Firefox and Thunderbird, a known URL security bug was closed in the Seamonkey browser suite in August. A similar bug has now been found in Konqueror.

In an announcement at Linuxworld in San Francisco, Palm stated that it will be using the Wind River Linux platform for development based on the recently launched Foleo Linux device.

IBM aims to lower the barriers for introducing grid computing-based information retrieval with an integrated hardware and software package combined with a financial deal.

Computer manufacturer Dell is extending its Linux offer to Germany, France and Great Britain with an Inspiron notebook and an Inspiron PC.

The Fedora project has joined forces with Creative Commons. The results are a live CD with Fedora 7 and free software, along with various music, sound and image documents under the CC license.

The Linux Foundation continues to grow. The latest member to join is the telecommunications supplier Nokia Siemens Networks.

Chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo has announced that it will be cooperating with Novell for various models of its Thinkpad business laptop series with Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 pre-installed.

Kevin Carmony has quit his position as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with software vendor Linspire.

Swiss vendor Archivista offers a document management solution comprising T2 Linux, OCR software, scanning software, archiving software and hardware. Version VIII of the GPL'd including the free OCR programs Ocrad 0.17 and Tesseract 2.0 is now available for downloading.