Version 2.3 of the French OOO-HG project recently presented a free map collection for Open Office. The 30MB collection, which was released under a Creative Commons license, comprises graphics that Open Office users can easily embed as documents in the gallery of the free office program.

The latest version of the Mozilla successor, Seamonkey, removes minor graphics bugs and includes security updates.

Version 1.1 of Greylite, a greylisting implementation for the Qmail mail server was released a couple of days ago.

Red Hat has signed the Sun’s Contributor Agreement and TCK License Agreement with the aim of developing an Open Source Java platform for RHEL.

Google’s mobile phone has been dubbed Android and is actually an Open Source platform with an operating system and applications.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. reported results today for its fiscal first quarter, which ended September 30, 2007.

The Mozilla Foundation has just released Prism, the pre-release version of an application that removes a Web application’s reliance on a browser. The software, which was previously only available for Windows, is now available as version 0.8 for Linux and Mac OS X.

A vulnerability in the extended text editor GNU Emacs gives local attackers the ability to run arbitrary code.

On November 1, 2007, the Federal Open Source Alliance released the results of its Federal Open Source Referendum Study, which provides new insight into the current adoption rates, trends, benefits, challenges, and success rates of open source implementation within Federal agencies.

Version 4.0.0 of System Imager, a software for automating the installation of Linux computers and for software distribution has just been released.