The Google search engine folks officially presented their Nexus smartphone based on Android on January 5.

Initiator and main developer of the Milkymist project, Sébastien Bourdeauducq, showed a prototype of his visual synthesizer at the latest Chaos Congress and builds his own board for it.

Thorsten Muehlfelder and the Salix team have released a new version of the Slackware-based distribution Salix OS, available for the first time as 64 bit variation.

Kernel developer and Novell coworker Greg Kroah-Hartman manages new drivers in a separate tree for the Linux drivers project. He most recently reported that a few projects will have to depart from Kernel 2.6.33, among them also Google.

There's a lot more to the openSUSE build service than just openSUSE. The service builds packages for numerous other projects, now also including Opendesktop.org.

ClearOS, formerly known as the ClarkConnect distro, with firewall, content filter and fileserver, is now in version 5.1.

PC maker Dell has announced the Inspiron Mini 10 netbook that runs on the new Intel Atom CPU.