Version 4.2 of the miniscule (50MB) DSL (Damn Small Linux) distribution has just been released.

After completing the community beta phase, SugarCRM has now released Version 5.0 of its Open Source CRM as a commercial package.

Version 1.0.0 of the free Stress program has just been released. The test tool generates configurable loads for the CPU, memory, I/O and drives of Posix-compatible systems.

Shortly after a revision of the current 5 branch of the Centos release, the Red Hat Enterprise source-based distribution has now updated the older release to version 4.6.

Lars Knoll is to become part of the Trolltech management team. As Vice President of Engineering, he will lead the developer teams in Norway, Germany and Australia.

Novell has published its business figures for the fourth quarter and the fiscal year 2007, and reports losses.

Version 1.0 of Bazaar, a software for decentralized version control has just been released.

The blogging software Movable Type is now available under the GPL, where it is dubbed MTOS (Movable Type Open Source).

Oxygen Office Professional 2.3.1 for Windows and Linux fixes a number of bugs.

Details of the LinuxPark lecture program at Cebit 2008 (March 4 through 9, 2008) are now available. Corporate users can look forward to topics such as Green IT and Software as a Service (SaaS) and home users to talks on Web 2.0 and multimedia applications.