The first Ubuntu Developer Week starts next Monday.

Chip manufacturer AMD has released documentation for its ATI graphics chips on the "Open GPU Documentation" website.

Andrew Morton had a dream: a new kernel tree which would make kernel development easier to follow and more efficient. He looked for a maintainer and found one in Stephen Rothwell.

Businessman and Lisp enthusiast Paul Graham presented the initial version of the Arc programming language. Graham points in particular to the brevity of Arc source code and has launched a programming language competition.

Navicron from Finland has just announced its Fusion developer platform which gives enterprises the ability to build wireless mobile and embedded devices.

The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) developers have now released version 4.2.3, which fixes a number of bugs.

Chip giant Intel has released comprehensive documentation on its 965 Express and G35 Express chipsets.

Version 3.0.0 of HTML Purifier, a PHP library for purifying HTML has just been released with numerous new features.