MilaX, a Live distribution of OpenSolaris, is available in version 0.5 with new software.

The open source project Meego will see Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo merge into one mobile platform.

The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from February 15-18, 2010 will have the Garmin and Asus alliance presenting their nüvifone A50, a smartphone with navigation capabilities.

Novell and the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) are moving in one direction in certificate solutions: Anyone holding a LPIC certificate will now automatically qualify for the CLA.

Tobias Gerschner has made a release candidate of Yoper 2010 available for download. The version already includes the new KDE 4.4 as a desktop.

Just in time for the tenth year anniversary of the free office suite is the complete release of OpenOffice 3.2.

The leader of the Gnome accessibility team, Will Walker, has until now worked for the Accessibility Program Office from Sun, which after the Oracle take-over melted into the relevant APO at Oracle.

The new Absolute Linux, based on Slackware, provides the IceWM stacking window manager with improved multimedia support. Version 13.0.9 this time fixes more than just a couple of small bugs.