The Open-PC project initiated by KDE board member Frank Karlitschek has released the specifications for its first computer. The desktop with dual-core Atom processor is due to arrive in February 2010.

The development of Ubuntu 10.04 is taking another turn. Lucid Lynx now has a second alpha version that gets rid of HAL.

Google's latest release, Android 2.1, comes not only with the mobile operating system but also a developer kit.

The Pardus team has published the first release candidate of its Linux distribution with the slightly confusing version number 2009.1.

The very frugal ttylinux distro is available in version 9.1.

The first smartphones based on Intel's Moorestown, the Mini 5 with Android and the Lenovo LePhone: the mobile Linux highlights from this year's Consumer Electronics Show.

The Linux-based instant-on operating system for fast access to the Web and chat adds more functions in version 2.0.

The recent mail from Novell titled "Upcoming maintenance requirement to access patches and service packs for select Novell products" only adds confusion for Linux customers. As it turns out, nothing much has changed.