Montavista now supports x86, ARM 5 and 6 and MIPS as market-specific embedded Linux.

The Linux Foundation will be holding its first LinuxCon conference from September 21 through 23 in Portland, Oregon. Linus Torvalds and Mark Shuttleworth will be among the speakers, and Linux Pro Magazine Online will do a live stream, free for the keynotes.

The common Unix printing system (CUPS) is now available as version 1.4.0. In addition to a variety of improvements, the free print server now includes the driver development kit (DDK).

Gartner, Inc. provides organizations a little checklist to avoid problems in Enterprise Content Management (ECM).

Tuxera, the Finnish company behind the NTFS-3G open source driver, on its own initiative entered into an agreement with Microsoft over exFAT drivers.

The name Ruben Unteregger may well become more newsworthy in the next few days. Unteregger has been working at the Swiss ERA IT Solutions company to develop the trojans MegaPanzer and MiniPanzer and has released the code under GPL.

Open Group seeks to create standards in order to better gauge the readiness of enterprises for service oriented architecture (SOA), with its service integration maturity model (OSIMM). The SOA governance framework is intended to help towards this end.

Synctool, a configuration managemment tool that synchronizes computer clusters, is available in a new 4.0 version. The software underwent some internal rework and picks up new features.