Following the withdrawal of Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth from the day to day running of the company, and his replacement by Jane Silber, Matt Asay has now moved into the free post of chief operating officer.

Under the motto "Reuse components, don't reinvent the wheel," Friedger Mueffke, founder of OpenIntents, described his project and its next steps. Using so-called intents, Android apps can provide services to other apps.

Spanish company eBox Technologies has released version 1.4 of its Linux server for small to medium sized enterprises.

Computer science veteran Andrew Tanenbaum presented the third version of his Minix operating system at the FOSDEM 2010 conference on February 6-7 in Brussels, Belgium.

Apple's iPad has evidently inspired the free Chromium OS and Google into developing a hardware implementation in tablet form.

LiMux is among the 15 projects that will present their work at CeBIT, the famous government client project of the City of Munich.

Leeenux Linux is a netbook distribution for the EeePC 701G, and is now available as version 2.0, complete with many new applications.

The Dutch-German groupware producer Zarafa has just made the first version of its collaboration platform 6.40 ready for testing.