Brazil's municipal schools should be getting more than 350,000 power-saving thin clients for their students.

FBReaderJ, a GPL program for e-book display on the Android mobile platform, is now available in version 0.3.0.

Under the auspices of the Open Screen Project, mobile vendor Nokia and software maker Adobe are providing a $10 million fund to help developers create mobile Flash applications. The underlying software will become free at least to some extent, according to Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch.

Last week Novell announced a layoff of almost 100 employees "in response to the global economic downturn," without any further details. New information now brings into question the software house's commitment to openSUSE.

The deal is closed: Debian 5.0, code-named Lenny, is officially available.

A new version of Wine, the program loader that lets Windows run on Linux, has been released.

Graphics specialist NVIDIA has unleashed the Android mobile platform on its Tegra computer-on-a-chip series.

Nils Magnus of Linux Magazine Online pulled together the heads of three Linux distros for an interview and put them in a video: openSUSE's Joe Brockmeier, Debian's Steve McIntyre and Red Hat's Max Spevack.