Instead of 24 months and 3 versions, Novell will in future only supply 2 updates in 18 months for openSUSE.

Iron, a privacy clone of the Chrome Google browser, is now released in its first test version on Linux.

A Linux kernel bug in network socket initialization could allow an attacker to acquire root privileges to inflict damages. The security hole applies to all kernels of the 2.4 and 2.6 series and has been around possibly since 2001.

Mozilla Labs is looking for users who have fun experimenting with the free browser's new features and is collecting structured feedback.

The Parted Magic LiveCD provides numerous tools for partitioning and data backup and recovery. The newest version 4.4 runs on systems with just 256-MByte RAM and now supports dial-up networking.

Template Builder as of now is a permanent part of Oracle's JeOS mini-Linux and produces images, known as templates, for Oracle VM.

The return rate for Linux netbooks are no higher than that for Windows, says a Dell product manager, declaring Microsoft's claims otherwise as a "non-issue."

Tidydoc makes organizing documents easy, be it via a file transfer program or web interface. The open source software is now available in version 0.5.

Finnix, a LiveCD Linux distro for system administrators, is available in version 93.0.

Linux distributor Novell is reorganizing: from now on, one developer team will dedicate itself entirely to openSUSE.