According to a recent online survey, about half of all embedded system developers choose the Linux operating system.

Reviews of O'Reilly's Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think, Prentice Hall's The Official Damn Small Linux Book, and Linux Firewalls: Attack Detection and Response with iptables, psad, and fwsnort from No Starch Press.

Montavista has joined forces with Virtutech and Nomachine to create a virtual evaluation portal.

Developers are currently working on a Debian variant for the lightweight Linux Eee notebook by Asus.

The Dojo Foundation has just released version 1.0 of its Open Source toolkit for Javascript and Ajax.

Just over four months ago, Sun's chief open source strategist, Ian Murdock, revealed the first details of plans for an open source variant of Sun's Solaris operating system. Now the first developer version has been released.

The driver project launched by kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman doesn't have enough hardware to work on. Although the Linux Driver project has enough developers, they aren't all working at full capacity, says Kroah-Hartman in his blog.

Version 0.37 of Monotone, an Open Source distributed version control system, has just been released. The new version updates required libraries and adds new features.