Ever since more and more Mono programmed applications such as Banshee, Gnome Do, and F Sport took over the Gnome desktop, the opposition to the .NET implementation has been getting more and more up in arms.

Apport immediately kicks in when an application crashes. In the future the program should be user-interactive in detecting bugs faster and more efficiently.

Novell seems to have revived its love for SUSE Linux. It now provides an interactive program to craft your own version of the Geeko mascot.

Ubuntu has released a second alpha version of Karmic Koala containing the earliest new features.

The current technical and financial collaboration with Novell seems to be pleasing Microsoft. Virtualization, file management and license sales are part of the success stories.

Tor packages for the Chinese distro Red Flag are helping users elude censorship in Internet cafes in China.

The Android Scripting Environment (ASE) is under Apache 2.0 licensing and should soon have Ruby and JavaScript support.

The distribution Ark Linux has recently replaced its previous packet manager Apt-RPM with Zypper from OpenSuse.