CeBIT 2010

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.

A few media technology companies have joined the LiMo Foundation, Adobe Systems among the newest ones.

The 4.6 release from Qt comes with a Symbian installer, Qt APIs for mobile devices and the promised Maemo 5 port.

The NagAconda Python tool helps when writing plugins for the Nagios monitoring tool and is available in its first open release.

At FOSDEM 2010 in Brussels, Linux Magazine Online pulled Android commentator Jan Wildeboer and kernel staging tree maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman away from the daily events to talk with them on camera.