Asus is taking pre-orders for a new netbook that runs on the combined Atom N280/GN40 chipset.

The countdown for Debian Lenny has begun with the project team putting the code in deep freeze. The release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 is expected mid-February.

Since the release of KDE 4 a year ago, the KDE Project has suffered a lot of criticism for previous 4.0 versions. With KDE 4.2, codenamed "The Answer", KDE developers hope to silence the critics.

After the OLPC project announced it would cut financial support for Sugar, developers have taken the future of the learning platform into their own hands.

In an effort to reduce costs, municipal authorities in the Veneto region around the Italian city of Venice, will change to open source.

Canonical has released its third alpha version of Ubuntu 9.04. It brings a few new features to test, including notification settings in the user interface and the much publicized ext4 filesystem support.

Taiwan-based hardware manufacturer Shuttle has released a series of mini-desktops running Linux. The next generation will have power-efficient VIA Nano processors.

The new edition of the Russian distro comes with bugfixes for the network manager, default printer settings and an updated version of OpenOffice 3.0.