Among the countless announcements in the Intel Developer Forum regarding Moblin was a joint press release from Intel and Microsoft. In it is announced that Microsoft wants to port Silverlight to Moblin.

Linus Torvalds has announced RC1 for Linux Kernel 2.6.32.

This past weekend the Wine project released a new version of its Windows emulator. Apart from the numerous obligatory bug fixes, the release includes improvements to the Direct3D 10 API and an initial support for the Open Audio Library (OpenAL).

The Gentoo project is celebrating its tenth anniversary, which inspired the Gentoo-Ten team to produce a special DVD that is now available in a test version.

Moblin 2.0 is officially ready for download and provides new services for mobile devices with Moblin Garage and Application Installer.

German company Freecom has announced, by its own reckoning, the first external USB 3.0 hard drive.

The Bazaar version control system largely developed by the Ubuntu company Canonical is available in version 2.0.0 and has a new repository format.

Linux distro Red Hat has released its Q2 2010 results that ended August 31, with figures that show a marked increase in subscription rates.

GNOME 2.28 provides a few new features and improvements to well-known functions and components. So the GNOME Epiphany browser now uses the sleak WebKit that makes apps such as Google Chrome work faster.