The Opensuse project has just released the first beta version of the new 10.3 distribution.

Mandriva "Cassini" includes kernel 2.6.22 and new versions of various applications, and it supports a whole bunch of new hardware. Compiz Fusion replaces Beryl.

The Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT) will be installing Suse Linux Enterprise on 30,000 desktops and 1880 servers at schools in the southern Indian state.

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

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.

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.

Red Hat Global Desktop, which was developed for use in developing countries, will not be ready for release in August as planned. A new release date has not been published as yet.