Following accusations by a US-based blogger that Asus had contravened the GPL, Asus quickly responded by publishing the missing sources.

Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution has just launched its "Launchpad Personal Package Archive Service" for developers on the Canonical "Launchpad" platform.

3DLABS Semiconductor has today announced the immediate availability of its Linux 2.6.21 based Software Development Kit (SDK).

A vulnerability in the extended text editor GNU Emacs gives local attackers the ability to run arbitrary code.

The KDE development team has set itself beta goals as milestones en route to the first release candidate. An initial release candidate of the KDE 4.0 developer platform is now available along with the improved beta four.

Embedded specialists Koan Logic have released version 2.0 of their webserver framework Klone which gives programmers the ability to development web applications in C and C++.

In the light of a ruling by the European Commission, Microsoft has now published revised license terms for interoperability.

Version 0.9.5 of Mercurial, a distributed version control system has just been released. The new version improves performance, adds new features and fixes bugs.