Hardware manufacturer Toshiba has released a series of notebooks with pre-installed OpenSolaris 2008.11.

While Microsoft blogger Brandon LeBlanc is celebrating his employer as winner in the netbook market, opportunities are opening up in the Asian market for the netbook's even smaller relative, the so-called mobile internet device.

The Openmoko FreeRunner smartphone, with its open platform, will remain the company's latest hardware product, at least for now.

Wind River has released Version 3.0 of the Linux platform for embedded device development.

By Canonical's Bryce Harrington's account, AMD has delivered an ATI driver that should be compatible with the X Server 1.6 found in, among other places, Ubuntu 9.04.

The Agora netbook from Kogan Technologies could be considered the most affordable netbook out of Australia. Availability starts in April 2009 at a price of merely AU$499.

Due to a breakdown in storage array, some openSUSE servers were unavailable yesterday, including download.opensuse.org.

The Gartner market research firm attests that the server market in Europe, the Middle East and Asia (EMEA) has shrunk by 9.2% in the fourth quarter of 2008 compared to the same quarter the previous year.