PC maker Dell has announced the Inspiron Mini 10 netbook that runs on the new Intel Atom CPU.

DigiKam main developer Gilles Caulier has released version 1.0 of the KDE photo management software just in time for Christmas 2009.

Intel's reworked Atom platform enhances netbooks and Internet devices with integrated graphics and memory controller.

The free content management system, Wordpress, now available in version 2.9, (codename Carmen), comes with some major changes.

AMD has issued an update of its proprietary 3D drivers for the current ATI cards. Version 9.12 fixes a number of bugs for multi-monitor mode and enhanced the Catalyst Control Center.

In close collaboration with Microsoft, a Novell team behind developer Miguel de Icaza has released version 2.0 of its Silverlight clone Moonlight.

After releasing a new Kernel version, Linus Torvalds needed a few days of rest to put some remaining patches into the next release. The so-called merge window has closed, with the 2.6.33 branch now open.

"Qt Everywhere" is the motto of Nokia's GUI toolkit smiths. Now developer Morten Sorvig has transplanted Qt apps into the Firefox browser.

Debian developer Joachim Breitner offers up a screensaver which displays random characters from a reserve supplied by Unicode.

In January 2010 Novell will consolidate four business units down to two and eventually say farewell to managers Jeff Jaffee and Roger Levy.