The Linux Foundation announced that Optelian, a company that designs and manufactures optical transport systems that send data across optical fiber, successfully migrated to Linux.

The KDE Windows team continues their progress in bringing KDE applications to MS Windows.

"We applaud Broadcom for its recent move to work more closely with the Linux community; their membership in the Linux Foundation speaks volumes of their commitment,” says Amanda McPherson, Vice President of Marketing and Developer Programs at The Linux Foundation.

Originally created for use in Ubuntu, Upstart is suitable for deployment in all Linux distributions as an alternative to the System-V init.

A preview of Xonotic 0.1--a free, open source, licensed under GPL, first person shooter game--is now available.

The Debian based Linux Mint Edition (LMDE) is now available for download.

Avian 0.4 is a portable virtual machine (VM) that utilizes subsets of Java's features.

libguestfs 1.8.0, a library and tool set for virtual machine (VM) disk image management.