The next release of the Fedora Linux Distribution, version 8, will not use KDE 4 as its standard desktop environment. The reason for this is conflict between the two projects' schedules.

Red Hat's Emerging Technologies working group has now released Virtual Machine Manager (Virt-manager) version 0.5.0, a desktop application that gives administrators the ability to manage virtual machines running on, say, Xen.

April next year will see the release of Ubuntu 8.04, the next distribution with long term support for professional use.

A new website, restructuring of consumer business and various activities involving hardware, software and service partners have been announced by Mandriva boss Francois Bacilhon.

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

US security vendor Trusted Computer Solutions (TCS) recently presented a solution for automating server hardening.

Right on time to celebrate the project's 14th birthday, Debian developers gave themselves a big present – the first Point Release for Debian Etch 4.0.