Mark Shuttleworth has expressed in his blog why he considers his motto "Less is More" to be important. He has applied it to certain design decisions for Ubuntu 10.04.

Google's online security teams has come out with a free security scanner for web apps, named Skipfish.

Task Coach, an open source program for managing todo lists, is available in version 1.0.0.

Ken Smith from the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has announced the released version 7.3 for download. The new FreeBSD comes with updated ZFS and a re-worked bootloader.

Users commonly on the Internet often maintain many online contacts. Mozilla now wants to help manage these contacts with a special Firefox addon.

Parted Magic, a Live Linux with programs for partitioning and data rescue, is available in version 4.9. Apart from bug fixes, it includes a few new features.

Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian informed all Novell customers per email on March 20 that the buyout proposal from Elliott Associates was rejected in that it undervalued the company.

The French Linux distributor Mandriva, has updated its Enterprise Server 5 that first appeared mid 2009.