Digium, makers of Asterisk telephony solutions, and VoIP provider Skype have announced a one-year development period for a Skype plugin to the free telephony service.

Announced at the Red Hat Summit in Chicago, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 update intends to set the groundwork for future virtualization products and cloud computing.

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.

German company UIB has released version 3.4 of opsi, an open source software distribution tool for Windows PCs. Along with improvements and updates, the latest version comes with a new module for the management of commercial software licenses.

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).

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

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.