SourceForge, the hosting and communication platform for many free software projects, is bowing to U.S. regulations and denying service to users from nations on the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions list.

The open source backup software Bacula has surpassed the 1 million mark in Sourceforge's download statistics.

The team at Ubuntu is trying to get users views as to which programs should be included in future versions of Ubuntu. The survey will be online until the end of January.

Novell has come up with an integrated software solution that makes data storage easier and more economical to manage.

A new subproject named ownCloud has emerged from the KDE Camp 2010 conference in San Diego.

IT journalist and openSUSE Community Manager Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier announced that he is leaving Novell as of January 31.

The Fedora project has put together a special interest group (SIG) dedicated to implementing Linux distros in cloud computing.

The Mozilla Firefox 3.6 browser is now available and provides performance improvements and numerous technical enhancements.

Nokia has released an alpha version of a new office viewer for the N900 smartphone. The software named Freoffice, installable under Maemo, is based on KOffice project code.

Skype has released a beta version of its chat and VoIP program for Linux under the code-name Talking Screens. Despite the minor version number change, the software has many new features.