The Linux Foundation has reinforcements from the hardware camp. CPU manufacturer ARM joined the Foundation on Monday.

The GNOME Foundation wants to issue regular quarterly reports to document the work on the free desktop. A Q2 2009 report is a good start.

The Open PC Project wants to construct a fair priced PC for Linux users. The results of a first survey have now been published.

Intel developer Arjan van de Ven is working on a new tool named Timechart that records Linux system performance in detailed graphics.

Whoever thought that Debian, Ubuntu or Fedora consist solely of free software would be wrong. The new list compiled by the Free Software Foundation showing truly free distributions has a mere nine entries.

IndiMail, an email solution made of open source components, now includes greylisting spam filtering in version 1.6.

A Russian Web developer has found a network of a couple of hundred Linux servers that could distribute malware to Windows systems.

Debian developer Frans Pop has updated debmirror, a tool that creates local copies of Debian repositories. The version number thereby jumped from 1.0 to 2.2 in just three weeks.

Paul Sherman has released version 13.0 of his Slackware-based distribution, pulling it level with Slack in the version stakes and relying on the slimline IceWM as window manager.

Oracle's takeover of Sun Microsystems hasn't been fully sanctioned by anti-trust entities and Oracle already has a message for customers: we'll continue to care intensively about SPARC and Solaris. Something's missing here: MySQL.