Gears is an open source application that allows users offline access to Google's documents and spreadsheets. But not entirely problem-free.

KDE is among the 15 projects that will present their work at CeBIT, offering the graphical work environment and many applications for Linux users.

Asus is taking pre-orders for a new netbook that runs on the combined Atom N280/GN40 chipset.

The countdown for Debian Lenny has begun with the project team putting the code in deep freeze. The release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 is expected mid-February.

Since the release of KDE 4 a year ago, the KDE Project has suffered a lot of criticism for previous 4.0 versions. With KDE 4.2, codenamed "The Answer", KDE developers hope to silence the critics.

After the OLPC project announced it would cut financial support for Sugar, developers have taken the future of the learning platform into their own hands.

In an effort to reduce costs, municipal authorities in the Veneto region around the Italian city of Venice, will change to open source.

Canonical has released its third alpha version of Ubuntu 9.04. It brings a few new features to test, including notification settings in the user interface and the much publicized ext4 filesystem support.