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Debconf, the annual Debian Project Conference will be taking place in Spain’s Extremadura region 2009, as Jörg Jaspert announced on the free software project’s mailing list.

The Opensuse project is collecting ideas for a visual rework of the Yast management tool.

Following eight alpha versions, Mozilla has now released for first beta of version three of the Firefox web browser.

Shuttle Inc., the market leader in the Mini-PC sector and manufacturer of multiple form- fctor solutions, is now offering its mini PCs preloaded with Linux in the UK.

Developers are currently working on a Debian variant for the lightweight Linux Eee notebook by Asus.

In the confusion surrounding the choice of an operating system for 17,000 Classmate PCs the Nigerian government has finally come down in favor of Mandriva Linux.

Skype 2.0 Beta now gives Linux users the video functionality that Windows and Mac users have enjoyed for several months.

Nigeria's Classmate PCs will not run on Mandriva Linux, but on Windows.

Just over four months ago, Sun's chief open source strategist, Ian Murdock, revealed the first details of plans for an open source variant of Sun's Solaris operating system. Now the first developer version has been released.