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In the wake of a poor quarter, Bloomberg reports that Palm is looking for buyers.

Grant goes toward development of ARM-optimized video codec

The X.org project's X server uses udev instead of HAL on Linux and introduces a configuration directory.

The minimalist ttylinux distro is now available in ARM and PowerPC versions.

Imad Sousou, director of Intel's Open Source Technology Center, has released the first parts for developers of the Linux-based MeeGo platform for mobile devices.

Red Hat has increased Linux version 5.5 compatibility and is providing new packages.

Red Hat came out with its own virtualization product at the end of 2009 and is now driving development of its Enterprise Virtualization for Servers.

Andy Ritger, NVIDIA manager responsible for the Linux graphics cards, as announced on the X.org mailing list that the graphics chip company will no longer develop the open source 2D video drivers for its chips. He recommends using the VESA X driver instead.

Following the announcement in February, the subsequent weeks were pretty quiet around the MeeGo mobile platform. The reason why: no code.