"The decision to be open to Qt is in no way a criticism of GNOME. It’s a celebration of free software’s diversity and complexity," says Ubuntu founder, Mark Shuttleworth in his blog.

“It's not on the Natty plan for now, but we'll be evaluating the progresses and will consider adding a 3rd session option if the development goes as planned,” said David Barth, Desktop Experience Team, Engineering Manager at Canonical.

The openSUSE Board elections process, which began in December last year, has now moved into the election phase and the final results will announced on January 26, 2010.

"Red Hat has enjoyed a great partnership with the State of North Carolina and we are really excited to continue on this path. This is a very exciting time for Red Hat and its employees!" --Leigh Day, Sr. Director, Corporate Communications for Red Hat.

Jason Warner, Ubuntu Desktop Manager for Canonical, discusses the ‘whys’ of the Banshee decision.

In this video interview, Canonical Chairman and Ubuntu Founder, Mark Shuttleworth discusses Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, and the inclusion of both OpenStack and Eucalyptus in Ubuntu 11.04, Natty Narwhal release, with Dell's cloud computing evangelist, Barton George.

The Linux Foundation announced that Optelian, a company that designs and manufactures optical transport systems that send data across optical fiber, successfully migrated to Linux.

The KDE Windows team continues their progress in bringing KDE applications to MS Windows.

Written in Java, OpenGrok is a source code search and cross reference engine that helps users search, cross-reference and navigate their source tree in a fast and efficient way.

Originally created for use in Ubuntu, Upstart is suitable for deployment in all Linux distributions as an alternative to the System-V init.