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Formally introduced in January, the latest KDE promises new features, improved accessibility, and a regular release schedule.

In late December, cable docks, soldering stations, templates, 4,000 participants, and 100 talks were active ingredients in the 24th Chaos Computer Congress.

The Mozilla Foundation today launched a new company, Mozilla Messaging Inc., which will be focusing on Internet based communications.

The Linux Foundation has released version 3.2 of Linux Standard Base (LSB) which promise improved support for Perl, Python, printers and multimedia.

The Top 500 Super Computer statistics offers a completely different view of market domination in IT: 85 percent of the world’s most powerful computers uses Linux as its operating system; Windows is way down accounting for just 1.2 percent.

The EU Commission is looking to investigate whether Microsoft illegally attempted to influence the standardization process for its own OOXML document format.

A controversial patch for the imminent kernel 2.6.25 is causing much debate in the developer community: in a similar move to one he made two years ago, the well-known kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman has submitted a patch that prevents closed source USB drivers from using the kernel's USB driver API.