Distributions such as Ubuntu and Debian are currently in the process of issuing updates to their users to remove a problem with the Rsync tool.

According to reports, the department of education in the Australian state of New South Wales has decided to install Open Office on its 41,000 computers.

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.

Intel's 10GBit Ethernet adapters for servers can now run the Fibre Channel protocol over Ethernet connections.

French distributor Mandriva has released its latest Linux offering, 2008.1 Spring.

Russian security specialist Kaspersky has reworked its anti-spam product for Linux and Unix servers.

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

Hewlett Packard has announced a 9” HP 2133 mini-notebook in line with the current MID boom.

The Brazilian election authority has announced that voting systems based on Linux will be used for the election later this year.

In a announcement made to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chip manufacturer AMD attributes job losses to poor figures in this quarter.