Web developer and Chrome hacker alias Hexxeh has released a new version of his Chromium OS build.

The OpenRouteService team at the University of Heidelberg has responded to the catastrophic situation of victims and destroyed infrastructure following the earthquake in Haiti by providing recovery forces with a new version of its live routing service.

VIA Technologies out of Taiwan is building around its Nano processor the M'SERV S2100 minicomputer for system integrators and OEMs with three USB ports designed for the small office/home office (SOHO) and small to medium enterprise (SME) market.

The eighth annual KDE PIM developer meeting in Osnabrück, Germany started out with an extended snowball fight among the Scottish, German and Dutch contingencies. That actual work was being done was evidenced by enhancements to Akonadi, KDE 4.4 and 4.5, and planned further development of the Kontact groupware client.

The development of Ubuntu 10.04 is taking another turn. Lucid Lynx now has a second alpha version that gets rid of HAL.

Formerly kernel and file system developer at the Linux Foundation, Theodore Ts'o has been working at Google since January. His first project: The migration of the file system ext4.

W3Perl, a free logfile analyzer for Web, FTP, Squid, and email servers, is available in a new, stable release.

Google has added Web storage to its Google Docs service.

Pelican HPC, a Live distro for High Performance Computing (HPC), is now available in version 2.0 with updated software.

Virtualization specialists VMware has enriched its portfolio with the open source based tool groupware Zimbra.