Veusz, a free plotting package for scientific data, is now available in version 1.5. Among the new features is support for Microsoft's EMF graphics format.

A group from the ETH technical institute in Zurich is working together with software giant Microsoft on a new kind of operating system called Barrelfish. The first results are now available under an open source license.

The recently released version 2.0 of Moblin elicited significant feedback. One frequently posed question was, why not ext4?

Linus Torvalds has announced RC1 for Linux Kernel 2.6.32.

This past weekend the Wine project released a new version of its Windows emulator. Apart from the numerous obligatory bug fixes, the release includes improvements to the Direct3D 10 API and an initial support for the Open Audio Library (OpenAL).

The free Java search engine Apache Lucene is available in version 2.9. The release provides numerous new features and API enhancements.

The Gentoo project is celebrating its tenth anniversary, which inspired the Gentoo-Ten team to produce a special DVD that is now available in a test version.

Moblin 2.0 is officially ready for download and provides new services for mobile devices with Moblin Garage and Application Installer.

German company Freecom has announced, by its own reckoning, the first external USB 3.0 hard drive.

The Bazaar version control system largely developed by the Ubuntu company Canonical is available in version 2.0.0 and has a new repository format.