PC-BSD, the FreeBSD-based free desktop platform, is available in version 8.0.

Between the middle of March and the end of May 2010, Microsoft will be providing a browser choice update to users of XP onwards. The update will allow alternative browser installation.

In an open letter to Google, the Free Software Foundation suggested that the software giant freely release the VP8 HD video compression format after having acquired the On2 video technology firm.

The NV driver served for a long time as the standard driver for NVIDIA graphic cards. Now Ubuntu developers have replaced it with Nouveau driver in Ubuntu 10.04. It provides more than just benefits.

Gitg, a GUI program that works with git repositories, is available for download in version 0.0.6.

Glsof-Queries is a GUI for the lsof (list open files) UNIX command with many query options. After a complete rework the open source tool is now available in version 1.0.0.

A new alert system should warn Ubuntu users via micro-blogging about potentially harmful updates.

The BSD Router Project (BSDRP) has released version 0.32 of its free embedded router distribution.

The Ssscrape tool screen-scrapes data from RSS and Atom feeds, blogs and podcasts. The open source software is now available in version 1.0.

A few media technology companies have joined the LiMo Foundation, Adobe Systems among the newest ones.