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

The makers of the free enterprise Linux, Centos, have released version 5.1, the latest version of their distribution on a Live CD.

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.

Moving from version 7.7 to 8.1 gives users of the hard disk tool new options and new information displays.

The update Debian 4.0 alias Etch to 4.03r sees the free project mainly add security patches and remove the Adobe Flash plugin from the official repository.

The OpenOffice developer team has taken another step towards completion of version 2.4, which is scheduled for publication at the beginning of March, by publishing the first Release Candidate of the free office package.

Following the server component, groupware specialist Open-Xchange has now released administrative and installation tools under thee GPLv2.

Novell today announced it has acquired SiteScape, a leader in open source team collaboration, in a move that will create interoperable, open source and open standards-based workspaces for team productivity.SiteScape, the founder of the ICEcore open source collaboration project, brings impressive team workspace and real-time collaboration capabilities to Novell.

The organizers of the FOSDEM developer conference (Brussels, Belgium, 23 through 24 February 2008) have placed more interviews with speakers online.