Hardware specialist Intel and embedded systems manufacturer Wind River are aiming to put Linux on wheels. Both enterprises have announced their intention to release a jointly developed Linux platform for the automotive industry.

The GnuTLS project has published two bugfix releases to close several vulnerabilities and resolve an error capable of interrupting connections.

Version 3.0.0 of Jasper Reports, a free Java report generating library with advanced export functionality has just been released.

Sunday is the 4th KDE Bug Day with the focus on finding errors in Konqueror.

The Mozilla project has just announced the availability of the initial alpha version of Thunderbird 3, codenamed "Shredder".

Andrew Morton, the Linux Kernel 2.6 maintainer announced last week at the Embedded Linux Conference in Mountain View that he is looking for an architecture-independent embedded specialist.

For over a year now, the Linux Driver Project (LDP) has offered free development of hardware drivers. Novell gave its employee and the project initiator Greg Kroah-Hartman a sabbatical for driver programming; Kroah-Hartmann recently published a status report.

Chip manufacturer VIA has announced a strategic Open Source initiative for Linux driver development.