Development team leader, Clement Lefebvre, announced the release of the Xfce desktop version plus the version for LXDE from Linux Mint 8 (codename: Helena) on the Linux Mint blog.

Red Hat came out with its own virtualization product at the end of 2009 and is now driving development of its Enterprise Virtualization for Servers.

IBM and Indian company Simmtronics are marketing their 10" netbook at a cost under $200.

After relaunch of the Linux.com website, the Linux Foundation ran a Gurus contest. The first winners have now been announced.

Ubuntu maker Canonical issued a survey on Ubuntu servers to the community and is now releasing the results.

Red Hat, Inc. earned $23.4 million in net income in their fourth fiscal quarter ending February 28, 2010, compared with $16.4 million in last year's Q4.

Mark Shuttleworth has expressed in his blog why he considers his motto "Less is More" to be important. He has applied it to certain design decisions for Ubuntu 10.04.