While Microsoft blogger Brandon LeBlanc is celebrating his employer as winner in the netbook market, opportunities are opening up in the Asian market for the netbook's even smaller relative, the so-called mobile internet device.

A selection of categorized 1-click installers is now being displayed on the openSUSE community website.

After almost a year of development, a new version 2.5 of the free Nexuiz open source action game has come out. What awaits users are some updated graphics and numerous fan-developed game levels.

French Linux specialist, Mandriva, has released version RC2 (codenamed Estephe) of their Linux 2009 Spring.

The PHP company Zend now includes an enterprise application server named Zend Server as one of its offerings.

Debian users can soon decide whether to install on Linux or FreeBSD kernels.

The Openmoko FreeRunner smartphone, with its open platform, will remain the company's latest hardware product, at least for now.

The Dutch software developer Ferry Boender has placed the first public version of his templating engine, Templum 0.1.0, online.

The Dojo JavaScript toolkit is available in version 1.3.0 with enhanced support for browsers such as Internet Explorer 8, Chrome and Safari.

Hardware maker Intel has handed over hosting of the Moblin open source platform to the Linux Foundation with a hoped for larger external participation.