Version 2.3 of the popular Open Office suite was released today. Downloads are already available on many mirror servers.

The European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg today confirmed a decision by the EU Commission to fine Microsoft 497 million euros.

SCO filed for protection under Chapter 11 of US bankruptcy laws on Friday.

In a half-day session in Westminster, members of the Free Software community gathered to inform British parliamentarians and civil servants of how Open Source software may impact the public sector and British industry in future.

The latest version of the PDF viewer Adobe Reader for Linux, version 8.1.1, is now available as a download.

Codeweavers, the manufacturers of Crossover, the Wine-based runtime environment, have announced version 6.2 of their software for Linux and Mac OS X, and given users a sneak preview of new and improved functions.

Novell's business Linux, Suse Linux Enterprise Server, will include an integrated Virtual Machine Interface (VMI) in future.

Version 0.11.0 of Webminstats, a statistics module for the Web-based administration tool, has just been released.

The Linux Foundation has issued invitations to its first summit on legal topics concerning Linux and Open Source in Boston. A second event will provide legal practitioners with know-how on the topic on an annual basis.

Sun Microsystems is acquiring a majority shareholding in Cluster File Systems and thus the rights to the Lustre cluster filesystem.