In theory, Compiz effects should not work under Enlightenment. But Elive developer Thanatermesis has now morphed Compiz and Enlightenment 17 to achieve the seemingly impossible.

Blender is among the 15 projects that will present their work at CeBIT, offering 3-Dimensional Software Creation for professionals.

Scribus is among the 15 projects that will present their work at CeBIT, offering an professional Desktop Publishing under Linux.

ATI has released the complete 3D register reference guide for Radeon 6XX/7XX chips, greatly simplifying the work of the open source Radeon HD driver project

The NVIDIA proprietary drivers for Linux are now out of beta phase and into a stable version. The new generation includes a number of new features.

The free GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) greets the new year with bug fixes for its 2.6.x release.

The Compiz project, which makes a free compositing window manager, suffers from a lack of participants, direction and leadership, at least according to developer Kristian Lyngstol.

After more than eight years of planning, GIMP 2.6 finally includes the Generic Graphics Library.