IBM sees the Hercules mainframe emulator as a source of competition. TurboHercules thinks they're simply leveling the playing field.

Songbird considers itself an iTunes alternative and while the project has had some success in that regard, not so much under Linux.

The X.org project's X server uses udev instead of HAL on Linux and introduces a configuration directory.

A leader in virtualization becomes the foundation's newest member

The Monkey HTTP Daemon lightweight webserver for static content enters the open source arena.

New name. New features. New focus.

The years long legal battle by the SCO Group over UNIX copyrights, which indirectly affect Linux, has resulted in another verdict in Utah court. The jury has ruled in favor of Novell.

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.