The Fraunhofer Institute has published a whitepaper on the interoperability of Office Open XML (OOXML) and the Open Document Format (ODF). Microsoft had a hand in its development.

In order for Foresight Linux to follow development trends more quickly, Michael Johnson (the founder of rPath and former head of Fedora) has proposed switching from rPath Linux to Fedora.

The Linux from Scratch (LFS) intensive training has been updated to version 6.5.

Ubuntu wants to get as many touchscreens working as possible for Karmic Koala. The developers are asking for help by collecting vendor and product IDs for USB touchscreens out in the market.

It was about 16 years ago that Ian Murdock came upon the idea to design a new Linux distro. He named it Debian after Debra and Ian.

Instead of 24 months and 3 versions, Novell will in future only supply 2 updates in 18 months for openSUSE.

Iron, a privacy clone of the Chrome Google browser, is now released in its first test version on Linux.

Mozilla Labs is looking for users who have fun experimenting with the free browser's new features and is collecting structured feedback.