More than 400 Gnome users and developers gathered in the United Kingdom for the July 2007 GUADEC conference.

The latest GNU compiler provides better support for parallel programming, and GCC also rolls out some new optimization features. We took GCC 4.2 for a test drive.

The Yahoo search engine's developer team today released a new Open Source program library for Flash and Flex.

Red Hat Linux has just released a beta version of its Red Hat Developer Studio. The developer environment, which is based on Eclipse, is targeted at facilitating the development of new applications for Red Hat solutions, and migrating existing applications.

Motorola presented its new Motomagx Linux platform for cellular phones at Linuxworld Expo in San Francisco. In the next few years, Motorola will be looking to migrate up to 60 percent of its cellphone portfolio to the Motomagx.

Teamtrac combines data from ticketing systems, version control and time recording, and generates statistical data. Version 0.5 of this Web-based software has now been released under GPLv2.

Californian database specialist Ingres has just joined the Eclipse Foundation Open Source developer network.

Does the kgdb debugger still stand a chance of making it into the kernel? It might make it into the next release but one.