Not long after the release of GNOME 2.8 comes a new version of NScripts. Included are a handful of new ease-of-use functions for GNOME's Nautilus data manager.

In a new FAQ, Oracle explains their position regarding SPARC, Solaris, Java, MySQL, and Open Office to clear up the many questions circulating.

A Qt developer has brought a piece of KDE to Maemo. After plasmoids, this week brings the Plasma desktop. Also a KDE Maemo mailing list.

Today Linux distributor Canonical announced the official release of Ubuntu 9.10, code-named Karmic Koala.

The OpenOffice project has celebrated the 100,000,000 download of its free office suite since the release of version 3.0.

Since July there has been much speculation about the arrival date of the new version of X.org. Now, X.Org 7.5 with multi-pointer support, has been officially released.

OpenSUSE awards two old and one new executive board positions to two community members and a Novell employee.

The Thunderbird team at Mozilla has initiated a new project, Raindrop, for open messaging and are presenting a first prototype.