A couple of kernel developers at Wine are upset about the current project leadership. Behind the dissatisfaction is so-called bug421 on the missing device-independent bitmap (DIB) engine.

Universal Serial Bus (USB) is becoming true to its name by providing universal access to monitors, this time for Linux.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has awarded this year's annual Entrepreneurship Competition award (the so-called "Hundred K") to the makers of Ksplice on May 13 in Cambridge. The kernel patch software Ksplice won the main award and also in the Web/IT category.

The embedded Linux specialist MontaVista software promises more flexibility through processor-specific distributions in version 6 of the in-house Linux variant.

U.S. firm Concursive has released the first version of its ConcourseConnect Web platform. The open source product serves to build community websites with blogs, wikis, picture galleries and other interactive features.

Qt Software from Nokia has kept its promise and released Qt to the community. A roadmap shows the direction the project is heading.

Recall that AMD published the basic system information for the chip sets R600 and R700 last year. To follow up this info, we now have the first info and code for the OpenGl Acceleration.

As Debian developer and package manager Aurélien Jarno says in a recent blog, Debian will soon switch from the standard GNU C library to the slimmer EGLIBC.