Sun has publicly released developer hardware for older proprietary hardware on a Wiki site entitled "FOSS Open Hardware Documentation".

Collaboration with Novell on virtualization and Web service management, and quality of interaction between Windows and Samba are the next topics that Microsoft's Linux developer, Tom Hanrahan, will be focusing on.

A regatta for unmanned robot sailing craft will be starting from Aberystwyth, Wales, in September. "Roboat", a Linux-powered craft by the Austrian Society for Innovative Computer Sciences (InnoC), will be one of the starters in Microtransat 2007.

Linux inventor Linus Torvalds says there's no need for Kernel 3.0.

If you want to promote the use of open source software, you might like this innovative approach out of Africa – comic strips.

Two legal experts have recently joined the Linux Foundation team: Karen Copenhaver, a specialist for Open Source licenses and Andy Updegrove, an expert for open standards.

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

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