The new OpenOffice 3.0.1 is the release of a portable, USB loadable version of OpenOffice.

The GNU Project's Bourne Again Shell (bash) is now in its fourth major version, which provides numerous enhancements.

According to current figures from Netbookdigest.com, Microsoft has lost $435,000,000 over the last year in netbook sales.

Red Hat's CEO, Brian Stevens, has in a webcast announced his company's virtualization strategy for 2009.

Novell wants to expand its SUSE Enterprise Linux into security management by acquiring the technology assets of two software companies.

Scheduled for release in October, Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala will come with server cloud computing and a new desktop design.

Steve Ballmer's deal with the Catalonian government is seen as a leverage against their existing Open Source strategy.

If Google were to use Qt, things would be much simpler and Chrome would have a unified interface under Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. But Google isn't satisfied with Qt.