We know by sitting strapped in our seats that all electronic devices are required to be shut off during startoffs and landings. But during longer flights it's no problem working on your notebook -- as long as WLAN, Bluetooth and 3G devices are nixed.

A group of OpenBSD developers have joined in the AerieBSD project. A new distro is being prepared whose likeness to OpenBSD is unmistakable.

An Alpha version of the new Fedora, codenamed Constantine and scheduled for release in November, is now available for download.

Whoever wants their favorite features integrated into Karmic Koala will have to hurry. From Thursday, the impending Ubuntu will accept no more changes.

Linux users can now get a 64-bit version of Google Chrome.

Emesene is a Linux client for communicating over Windows Live Messenger. The current version brings first-time webcam support.

This week the Linux Foundation published statistics of the people and companies behind the kernel development. Canonical is not mentioned at all.

The openSUSE community has had its request granted. Version 11.2 of the Linux distribution will come with KDE as default desktop.