Computer science veteran Andrew Tanenbaum presented the third version of his Minix operating system at the FOSDEM 2010 conference on February 6-7 in Brussels, Belgium.

Mollify is a PHP application for managing and downloading files from a web server. The new version 1.5 comes with numerous changes.

Grsync, a graphical user interface for the rsync synchronization tool, is now available in version 1.0.0 for Maemo.

The embeddable database Berkeley DB is available in version 4.8.26 with new APIs.

The Symbian Foundation has released its mobile platform of the same name as free software.

Palm hits the gas pedal: with a six-figure monetary award for the most downloaded webOS applications the California company wants to heat up the app development market.

Apple's iPad has evidently inspired the free Chromium OS and Google into developing a hardware implementation in tablet form.

KDE developer Alex Fiestas has taken on the orphaned KDE Bluetooth. The first release under his supervision, Kbluetooth 0.4, has now been released.

A dedicated community site for productive work within .NET embedded applications has been planned since the end of January. The associated SDK family is partly covered by Apache licensing.

John Newton, founder and CTO of the Alfresco Software content management system (CMS) company, has announced a licensing change from GPL to LGPL for the software. The change should go into effect the next Alfresco community version.