The NagAconda Python tool helps when writing plugins for the Nagios monitoring tool and is available in its first open release.

Linux Pro Magazine met the author of numerous standard works in informatics and the most famous Linux critic at the Fosdem in Brussels.

According to an announcement by the European OSOR information service, a group of Czech companies and individuals has offered a roughly 3,200 euro award to develop platform-independent access to the mandatory "Data boxes" email service used by government agencies.

The open source project Meego will see Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo merge into one mobile platform.

The managelogs program manages the Apache Web server generated log files. For version 2.0.0 the developers made some changes to the build.

Version 7 of the GPL webserver introduces a monitoring application.

Inventory management software Tellu has been completely reworked and is now available in version 3.0.0.

At FOSDEM 2010 in Brussels, software that was declared dead was resurrected (Hurd), known combatants sat down at the same table (openSUSE, Fedora and Debian) and almost forgotten entities raised their hands again (openSUSE for PowerPC).