The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced the winners of its annual free software awards, with Richard Stallman as the presenter.

For some game fanatics, the only reason they continue to use Windows is to play poker. Yet Linux also offers poker software.

The software is oriented to TeamSpeak and gamers: the voice chat product Mumble is now available together with the Murmur server in version 1.1.8.

The free music portal Last.fm is known for offering worldwide users an unlimited array of Internet radio options. Now, certain users will have to pay three bucks a month.

The "Advanced Bash Scripting Guide" version 6 has been reworked to incorporate the new features of Bash 4.0.

A botnet named psyb0t has been nesting for a few months in consumer devices that run on Linux with MIPS CPUs, notably routers. Infested devices connect through a botnet over a private Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server to await commands.

Novell announced today that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) is officially out in version 11. The SLES extensions for Mono and the desktop version SLED 11 should also concurrently hit the market. A high-availability extension is to follow.

Rumors of a Red Hat takeover have been circulating since time immemorial. Maybe this time there's some truth to it.

Kernel 2.6.29 has arrived and brings with it a string of new features. We're presenting some of them and describe what to make of them.

Navigation software maker TomTom is now beating its drums against Microsoft for patent rights and has aligned with the Open Invention Network.