Development of the next Kernel 2.6.31 has just begun, which leaves Linus Torvalds some time for blogging again. He's apparently in good spirits, at least as to the current source code management.

The 4th Open Source Monitoring Conference 2009 on Nagios has released its Call for Papers.

Dell has announced its XS11-Vx8 server based on VIA Nano U2250 power-saving processors normally used in low-cost netbooks.

Support for multi-touch in the Qt GUI toolkit is making visible progress, as demonstrated by the Qt development team on their blog.

Netcraft's webserver statistics for April show over 230 million websites for April, six million more than in March.

After 10 years the industry-independent Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) is embarking on a completely new BIND implementation with BIND 10. Its patrons and sponsors should ensure that the market leader in DNS implementation is more secure, flexible and highly scalable, although developers are keeping the details close to their chests at present.