Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Foundation cofounder and present at the open source meeting in Munich sponsored by the foundation and OpenOffice.org, recommitted the open course the Firefox browser was taking with video codecs, but still wishes for more user feedback.

Among the changes to Ubuntu 10.04 is that Google will lose its place to Yahoo as the Firefox standard search engine. Canonical attributes it to financial reasons.

Following the European Commission's OK to Oracle's takeover of Sun Microsystems, Oracle has now released a statement from their top management about MySQL and Solaris.

Steve Jobs presented the iPad tablet computer in San Francisco among great anticipation.

With version 3.3.0, the free spam filter SpamAssassin has its first big release since May, 2007.

For the fifth bugfix and translation update for the KDE Software Compilation 4.3, developers tackled among other things some hideous directory manifestations.

Lucidor, the free program for reading and organizing ebooks, now available in version 0.9 comes with the ability to read OPDS catalogs.

The Mpath-tools serve for redundant Internet connections of a site over multiple, heterogeneous ISPs. The currently released version 1.0.0 is enriched with a monitoring Web interface.

The system monitor Atop is available as version 1.24 and is complete with a variety of enhancements.

The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has received the Theodor Heuss Medal for 2010.