Today the Linux Foundation announced that all major Linux distributions are certified to Linux Standard Base (LSB) 4.0 and that LSB 4.1 beta is now available to the public.

"The LAMP stack helped build the web; open source helped build the web; and Cloud.com wants to shape the future of cloud computing," says Mark Hinkle, Vice President of Community at Cloud.com.

Stylite GmbH announces new added features to the community version of its Egroupware with the release of version 1.8.

The Cloud Linux company in Princeton NJ has released its like-named operating system in version 5.5. The LiteSpeed webserver is now partnering with it to provide a corresponding version 4.0.14.

With the release of GNOME 2.30, various improvements and changes went into the free Linux desktop.

The community edition of Nexentastore, an Open Solaris based storage solution, has been released in version 3.0.

The years long legal battle by the SCO Group over UNIX copyrights, which indirectly affect Linux, has resulted in another verdict in Utah court. The jury has ruled in favor of Novell.

Red Hat came out with its own virtualization product at the end of 2009 and is now driving development of its Enterprise Virtualization for Servers.