Linux is proving to be a stronger competitor than Apple for Microsoft, says Steve Ballmer at a recent Strategic Update meeting with investors, and has a supporting graphic to prove it.

Since the end of 2008, Psion has actively defended its copyright of the term netbook, with some success. Now Dell has issued court papers disputing the claim.

Steve Ballmer's deal with the Catalonian government is seen as a leverage against their existing Open Source strategy.

Xandros has launched an ARM based Linux version for netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices at the Mobile World Congress in Spain's Barcelona.

A new version of Wine, the program loader that lets Windows run on Linux, has been released.

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.

Debian, Mandriva and Fedora developers call them Sid, Cooker and Rawhide. OpenSUSE calls them Factory and they are ringing the changes for the Factory development.