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Software giant Novell has postponed the publication of its figures for the fourth quarter, and for the whole financial year 2007.

US kernel developer Theodore Ts'o will be joining the Linux Foundation for the next two years as Chief Platform Strategist.

The Aleutia E1 is a Mini PC with Puppy Linux on board designed for deployment in areas far away from power sources.

The latest version of the office suite, version 2.3.1, removes bugs and closes vulnerabilities.

Adobe has released a new version of its Flash Player 9 Update 3, including the Linux version which thus leaves the beta stage. It now supports the H.264 video format and fullscreen operations with accelerated graphics.

Version 6.0 of Netbeans, an IDE sponsored by Sun has just been released.

Debconf, the annual Debian Project Conference will be taking place in Spain’s Extremadura region 2009, as Jörg Jaspert announced on the free software project’s mailing list.

Centos, a distribution based on the GPL’d sources of Red Hat Linux is following in its role model’s footsteps and has just gone to version 5.1.

Developer Daniel Bernstein has placed his Qmail mail server in the public domain.

Security researchers at Secunia have reported two security bugs in the Rsync synchronization tool and one in the current Linux kernel.