FreeBSD and NetBSD are among the 15 projects that will present their work at CeBIT, sharing a booth and representing "Berkeley Software Distribution" operating systems. If you paid attention -- you're right, actually it's 16 projects at the Open Source Project Lounge.

An email appeal by Joey Schulze is calling for hardware donations to support two new Debian projects: snapshot and data archive.

Based on OpenStreetMap and other Open Geodata technology, the Open Route Service now covers the whole of Europe.

The KDevelop team released its first beta version of the development environment for KDE and Qt programs.

This first Beta brings developers another step closer to the scheduled release of Gnome version 2.26 in March.

Michael "Monty" Widenius, long associated with MySQL, has decided to leave Sun Microsystems. His plan is to pursue open source software development again as an independent agent, and he also sees a future in gastronomy that should benefit all database developers.

Gnome is among the 15 projects that will present their work at CeBIT, offering free desktop environment of Linux and Linux-like systems that is especially focused on offering easy access.

Blender is among the 15 projects that will present their work at CeBIT, offering 3-Dimensional Software Creation for professionals.