Originally created for use in Ubuntu, Upstart is suitable for deployment in all Linux distributions as an alternative to the System-V init.

"Pandora is one of Gluster's top five deployments and offers a modern data center solution that provides flexibility, seamless growth, with 'pay as you grow' scalability," says Jack O'Brien, VP of marketing at Gluster.

Linus Torvalds releases the Linux 2.6.37 kernel to the public.

Freescale brings the i.MX 6 processors series to tablets, smartphones, eReaders, automotive infotainment and more.

Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, announces that the Wikimedia Foundation met its US$ 16,000,000 fund-raising goal.

Ubuntu Desktop Engineer at Canonical, Matthias Klose, announces that LibreOffice is being considered as an OpenOffice replacement in the upcoming Ubuntu 11.04 release, Natty Narwhal.

Parted Magic 5.8, a live light-weight Linux distribution developed for partitioning hard drives, can now be fully loaded into RAM and booted.

JBoss AS 6.0, a free Java EE 6 compliant application server, is now available.

Wary Puppy, a project developed to provide on-going Puppy Linux solutions for older hardware, announced today that version 5.0 is ready and available for download.

Yorba, developers of Shotwell, the open source photo manager for GNOME, announced that version 0.8.0 is now available.