CeBIT 2010

Researchers at the University of Masaryk in Brno, Czech Republic, have detected a botnet that can hit Linux routers and DSL modems.

PC-BSD, the FreeBSD-based free desktop platform, is available in version 8.0.

The NV driver served for a long time as the standard driver for NVIDIA graphic cards. Now Ubuntu developers have replaced it with Nouveau driver in Ubuntu 10.04. It provides more than just benefits.

Gitg, a GUI program that works with git repositories, is available for download in version 0.0.6.

Glsof-Queries is a GUI for the lsof (list open files) UNIX command with many query options. After a complete rework the open source tool is now available in version 1.0.0.

A new alert system should warn Ubuntu users via micro-blogging about potentially harmful updates.

The BSD Router Project (BSDRP) has released version 0.32 of its free embedded router distribution.

The Ssscrape tool screen-scrapes data from RSS and Atom feeds, blogs and podcasts. The open source software is now available in version 1.0.