In January 2010 Novell will consolidate four business units down to two and eventually say farewell to managers Jeff Jaffee and Roger Levy.

During the FUDCon in Toronto, the Fedora team discussed changes to central infrastructure, among which the change to Git.

To counter the back-and-forth about the future of the free MySQL database after Oracle's takeover of Sun Microsystems, developers have put effort into releasing another test version, called a second milestone, of the product.

Russian security experts Kaspersky ventures a forecast for malware development in 2010 and sees new types of attacks coming our way.

The SysUsage monitoring tool is available in a new version 3.0 and provides a completely reworked Web interface.

Microsoft had lost the single Windows booting option in school computers in Spain some time ago. But now they are getting back: The Spanish Government announced in a surprising move that an agreement with Microsoft has been signed to give out laptops to primary schoolchildren next year.

The HA technology, Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD), is to be merged into the official Linux kernel, probably from version 2.6.33.

Following a rather vague announcement in November, Samsung has now released details about their open smartphone development platform bada to the Web.