If it were to go by Project Boot.kernel.org, practially all distros in the foreseeable future would boot off the Internet.

The first netbooks with Moblin pre-installed come from Dell. The first Mini 10v system is already available and image files ready for download.

The GroundWork Open Source firm has upgraded its network monitoring suite to version 6.0. Next to an Enterprise subscription edition it also provides, as before, its free Community edition.

The Thunderbird mail client has reached its next stage with a beta on the way to 3.0.

IBM has joined Canonical to market Ubuntu-based netbooks with IBM's Smart Work applications in emerging world markets. Africa is the beginning.

If you missed LinuxCon, you can watch the roundtable video archive online now.

Mobile applications, popularized by iPhone and Android, are getting some further encouragement from chipmaker Intel and its Atom platform.

The Network Security Toolkit (NST), a live DVD with countless security tools, is available in version 2.11.0. Much of the work focused on the installation and update mechanisms.

Today at 10:00 AM and 4:00 PM Pacific Time, the keynotes from Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth and HP's open source lead Bdale Garbee conclude the Linux Pro Magazine live streams from LinuxCon.

The KDE project's Sebastian Kügler dreams of a desktop that melts, like silk, into the Web. In a writeup to KDE developers he promotes Project Silk for better Web integration.