The first Release Candidate of the free Suse distribution 10.3 has everything the final release will have, and it's stable says the Suse Team. Time for a trial run.

Linspire is offering commercial support for basic issues for its Freespire community version as of now.

The Jacklab Audio Distribution (JAD) 1.0 aims to offer what the media artist's heart desires, audio, video and imaging. And it aims to help users migrate from Windows.

Version 2.3 of the popular Open Office suite was released today. Downloads are already available on many mirror servers.

The European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg today confirmed a decision by the EU Commission to fine Microsoft 497 million euros.

Codeweavers, the manufacturers of Crossover, the Wine-based runtime environment, have announced version 6.2 of their software for Linux and Mac OS X, and given users a sneak preview of new and improved functions.

Novell's business Linux, Suse Linux Enterprise Server, will include an integrated Virtual Machine Interface (VMI) in future.

Microsoft and Novell have announced the opening of an Open Interoperability Lab within the scope of cooperation between the two companies.

The Pioneer Linux Explorer Server is targeted at newcomers. The commercial distribution is available free of charge for non-commercial use.

The first stable version of the new Protech Linux distribution, which includes various security tools, has just been released.