Norwegian developers Trolltech have sold out their entire inventory of Linux Greenphones. This is the end of Trolltech’s excursion into the world of hardware.

High availability and scalability are Oracle’s objectives with the new database driver for PHP. The pre-release version is available for testing now.

Manufacturers of embedded systems are choosing Linux more often than any other operating system; and the trend looks likely to continue, according to a forecast by market researchers Venture Development Corporation (VDC).

UK-based ARM is looking to develop a Linux platform for mobile devices in cooperation with six partners.

A debate on various security models for the Linux kernel has developed on the Linux Kernel Mailing List.

Kernel 2.6.24 has kicked off with the announcement of a new MMC Layer. The new layer will support the SDIO (Secure Digital Input Output) and SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) standards.

In a post on the Linux Kernel mailing list, Thomas Gleixner claims to have fixed ACPI suspend and resume problems. Linus Torvalds praised him for doing so, but also has his doubts.

A moderately critical vulnerability was discovered in the QUtf8Decoder of Trolltech's Qt Framework.