November 9, 2004 was when Firefox was officially born. A look back on its fifth birthday.

So unreal the name, so real the news: Epic Games is providing its Unreal Engine 3 free to developers. It isn't open source, but game developers can implement it for noncommercial games and applications.

KDE founder Matthias Ettrich was awarded the highest accolade available in the German Republic for services to the common good on Friday.

The French-U.S. firm Arkeia Software is taking over Kadena Systems, the California backup provider specializing in eliminating redundancies.

The Subversion version control system is now part of the Apache Software Foundation.

With its new dashboard, Google wants to improve its image as to user privacy and demonstrate more transparency and control.

BSDanywhere, a Live-CD based on OpenBSD, is now available in version 4.6.

The Moblin project has released version 2.1 of its Linux system optimized for Intel Atom processors. It provides countless detailed changes and new features.

The Scientific Linux distro, which derives from the freely licensed sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), is now available in version 5.4.

OpenSUSE updates will, in future, be decided by a joint panel of Novell staff and community members. Only security updates will be decided by Novell alone.