Silicon Graphics Incorporated (SGI), the Californian based server manufacturer, has filed for bankruptcy protection and agreed to sell its assets to Rackable Systems Inc.

OpenSSL is approaching version 1.0: the first beta provides a few enhancements and the project is calling for tests.

XScreenSaver is one of the most widely-used screensaver applications for Linux systems. The Debian project is seeking new maintainers to help keep the software running.

The patent war between Microsoft and TomTom may be resolved in court, but it hasn't ended. At least that's what the lawyers at the Software Freedom Law Center think, and Jim Zemlin of the Linux Foundation is further considering the implications.

Debian developer Ana Guerrero, as spokesperson for the KDE team, has announced that KDE4 will appear during the first week of April 2009.

The Fedora project has released the first beta test version of Fedora 11 after an announced delay from its original milestone.

The Linux distro CentOS, a free Red Hat clone, is now available in version 5.3 to match that of RHEL 5.3.

Two very different projects have closed this week: Microsoft's commercial Encarta, and after just 14 months, the free search engine Wikia Search.

Wind River has released Version 3.0 of the Linux platform for embedded device development.

Finnish software developer Jerry Jalava uses Linux on a USB stick, although in a rather unusual way: the USB is part of his prosthetic finger.