Under the auspices of the Open Screen Project, mobile vendor Nokia and software maker Adobe are providing a $10 million fund to help developers create mobile Flash applications. The underlying software will become free at least to some extent, according to Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch.

Last week Novell announced a layoff of almost 100 employees "in response to the global economic downturn," without any further details. New information now brings into question the software house's commitment to openSUSE.

The deal is closed: Debian 5.0, code-named Lenny, is officially available.

A new version of Wine, the program loader that lets Windows run on Linux, has been released.

Nils Magnus of Linux Magazine Online pulled together the heads of three Linux distros for an interview and put them in a video: openSUSE's Joe Brockmeier, Debian's Steve McIntyre and Red Hat's Max Spevack.

Firefox provider Mozilla has released a new Web development tool called Bespin. The project should not only make programming Web applications easier, but make it a collaborative effort worldwide.

Building, securing, and maintaining networks with the FreeBSD operating system

• Set up and manage networking on FreeBSD
• Virtualization with FreeBSD Jails, IPFW and PF
• Configure interfaces, protocols, and routing

Linux Magazine Online has been talking to Leslie Hawthorn, one of the project managers for Google's hacker scholarship.