Mandriva Linux 2010 is set to appear on the scene with an alpha version in October. First attempts with the free version (in 32- and 64-bit) have been approved. In the meantime the French company has let its community down by cancelling the LinuxTag visit last minute.

The groupware project Tine 2.0 will appear at the Berlin LinuxTag 2009 with a beta version of its 2009-06 release, code-named Leonie, that includes mail and calendar components.

Wine 1.1.24 has smoothed out rough edges and now functions with various Windows games while Linux applications run better.

The new version automatically organizes music libraries and is fully integrative with iTunes.

Development at Amarok is moving fast. Version 2.1.1 has only just been released and already programmers are working on the features of version 2.2.

The GPL flight simulator Palomino from Jim Brooks has, with the integration of OSSIM and the 3D graphic tool OpenSceneGraph, become serious competition for Flightgear.

Ever since more and more Mono programmed applications such as Banshee, Gnome Do, and F Sport took over the Gnome desktop, the opposition to the .NET implementation has been getting more and more up in arms.

The free video editor and VJ tool Lives brings updates and bug fixes on the way to a planned July release of its first stable version 1.0.0.