Developer Andrew Tridgell has made known that he devised a patch to avoid the possible patent issues with the VFAT filesystem in Linux.

The 33. International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) 09 has released its Top 500 List. US machines dominate the first ten positions with Linux Roadrunner leading, but slots 3 and 10 have been taken by Linux PCs from the Juelich development center in Germany.

Just in time for LinuxTag 2009 Berlin, California firm Talend promises real-time data integration software.

Wine 1.1.24 has smoothed out rough edges and now functions with various Windows games while Linux applications run better.

The new NConf release, despite being a minor one, provides many clear improvements.

The current technical and financial collaboration with Novell seems to be pleasing Microsoft. Virtualization, file management and license sales are part of the success stories.

The distribution Ark Linux has recently replaced its previous packet manager Apt-RPM with Zypper from OpenSuse.

The city of Madrid wants to spur small to medium size businesses. June 3 the city council opened a technology development and training center called Madrid on Rails to help SMEs find a market advantage through open source software.