The Opensuse team has just released an update for the port scanner Nmap that signals the end of support for Suse Linux version 10.0.

The OpenVZ project has released two new virtual machine images which will give administrators the ability to set up a new virtual server in less than a minute.

After seven months of development, the highly portable, distribution independent package manager RPM 5.0.0 has now been released.

Microsoft developer Douglas Purdy reports of plans to create a clone of the Emacs editor for .Net.

The makers of Asterisk, the Open Source phone system, have removed a bug that allowed denial of service attacks under certain circumstances.

The popular free forum software, Phorum has just released a new stable version 5.2.5.

Wikia Search, a search engine with free algorithms was one of last year's most eagerly awaited projects. The wait is due to end January 7.

About one year after the last major release, the Mandriva-based security distribution Annvix has now replaced RSBAC with Apparmor in version 3.0 and updated its collection of programs.

The Debian project has just released version 4.0r2 of its Linux distribution. The second update for the current stable release, Etch, mainly comprises bug fixes.

SCO, notorious for its litigation concerning Unix rights has been delisted by the US stock exchange Nasdaq.