"I personally would love to see more folks getting involved in areas that don't necessarily require coding skills. I think that there is enormous room for growth and contribution in these areas, and there are plenty of Linux enthusiasts out there who have the skills and imagination to make great contributions in these places." ~ Robyn Bergeron

A KDE project, the ownCloud initiative is a web storage app that is developed by the KDE community.

Novell announced that its stockholders voted to adopt the previously announced Agreement and Plan of Merger with Attachmate Corporation and Longview Software Acquisition Corp.

The LiMo Foundation, a global consortium of mobile operators, device and technology vendors, announced the latest release of the LiMo Platform—LiMo 4.

After three years, Guile 2.0, a GNU interpreter and compiler for the Scheme programming language, is now available.

ComFusion, a Spanish Ubuntu-based operating system formerly know as Uberyl, announces that version 3 is now available.

Frugalware 1.4 (Nexon) is general purpose linux distribution, designed for intermediate users that is now available and using LibreOffice.

“There has not been a comprehensive, up-to-date freely available catalog like this for a long time,” said Victor Palau, Platform Services Manager at Canonical. “By making this open and easily searchable we want to speed the component selection for Ubuntu machines, and allow us and our partner manufacturers to focus on the value-added user experience.”