The free toolchain generator Crosstool-NG is available in version 1.5.0 and introduces numerous new features.

End of September was a meeting of open source experts in Portland, Oregon and Linux Pro Magazine was there with its video camera. Linus Torvalds and developer colleagues at the kernel roundtable, the hotly debated keynote by Mark Shuttleworth and all other presentations are available in our video archives.

With the upcoming version 9.10 the Ubuntu One DropBox clone will be integrated automatically into Ubuntu's GNOME desktop. Paying customers will get a significant storage capacity upgrade.

The X.org team has made its X Server 1.7.0 available for download. X.org 7.5 will soon follow, according to a new, ordered release strategy.

The GNOME Foundation wants to issue regular quarterly reports to document the work on the free desktop. A Q2 2009 report is a good start.

Intel developer Arjan van de Ven is working on a new tool named Timechart that records Linux system performance in detailed graphics.

IndiMail, an email solution made of open source components, now includes greylisting spam filtering in version 1.6.

A Russian Web developer has found a network of a couple of hundred Linux servers that could distribute malware to Windows systems.