According to reports, the department of education in the Australian state of New South Wales has decided to install Open Office on its 41,000 computers.

For over a year now, the Linux Driver Project (LDP) has offered free development of hardware drivers. Novell gave its employee and the project initiator Greg Kroah-Hartman a sabbatical for driver programming; Kroah-Hartmann recently published a status report.

The Brazilian election authority has announced that voting systems based on Linux will be used for the election later this year.

In a announcement made to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chip manufacturer AMD attributes job losses to poor figures in this quarter.

It's official: Microsoft's Office Open XML format (OOXML) has been accepted as a new standard at a second hearing

The Linux Foundation, which also employs Linus Torvalds, has welcomed Adobe as a new member in a press release.

Our sister publication, Linux Magazine Brazil, is providing quasi-real time coverage of INdT's Bossa Conference in both English and Portuguese. Linux Magazine Brazil Editor Pablo Hess is on site at the event in Recife and will be interviewing famous names from the Open Source scene exclusively for Linux Magazine. Read on for his initial report.