Novell announced that its stockholders voted to adopt the previously announced Agreement and Plan of Merger with Attachmate Corporation and Longview Software Acquisition Corp.

After three years, Guile 2.0, a GNU interpreter and compiler for the Scheme programming language, is now available.

ComFusion, a Spanish Ubuntu-based operating system formerly know as Uberyl, announces that version 3 is now available.

The Android Builder Summit, to be announced by the Linux Foundation on Wednesday, February 16, will bring together OEMs, device makers, systems builders and kernel community to collaborate on the Android platform.

Announced today, the open source community will be able to buy the Snowball development boards that use ST-Ericsson's AP9500 chipset and run free open source software and tools that have been optimized by Linaro.

Frugalware 1.4 (Nexon) is general purpose linux distribution, designed for intermediate users that is now available and using LibreOffice.

“There has not been a comprehensive, up-to-date freely available catalog like this for a long time,” said Victor Palau, Platform Services Manager at Canonical. “By making this open and easily searchable we want to speed the component selection for Ubuntu machines, and allow us and our partner manufacturers to focus on the value-added user experience.”

The Hardware Summit announces the availability of version 1.0 of the Open Hardware Definition and asks for the community to help drive this initiative forward.