The first joint conference with KDE and Gnome is set to kick off on July 3rd on the island vacation destination Grand Canary. Richard Stallman is expected to attend for the opening of Guadec and Akademy.

Linux and multitouch input also work without X.org and with help from the new Kernel 2.6.30. Three French students show how it's done.

The 4th Open Source Monitoring Conference 2009 on Nagios has released its Call for Papers.

Notebook maker Acer is of the opinion that Android will be spreading its wings in the netbook market over the next two years.

The venture behind Ubuntu has announced its two-fold cooperation with Intels mobile product division: Moblin has wandered onto the Ubuntu Netbook Remix and also onto Intels Classmate PC.

Data storage specialist SanDisk announced at Computex the redesign of its solid state drives. The flash memory is intended to be quicker and more precise than the first generation.

Drupal community leaves its semi-annual conference more than US$ 650,000 richer.

At the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco on May 27, Google's senior director for mobile platforms Andy Rubin made it public that many new Google phones are expected to appear by end of 2009.