In October the free Linux project from Novell will for the first time elect its own board members. Deadline for applications to vote or stand is September 24th.

The dispute over the display of the EULA in the new Firefox has been settled.

With the release of its Mobile Edition 1.0, Linux distribution Foresight has joined the race to dominate the netbook market.

Unison is offering the first commercial version of it's software product combining telephony, e-mail, address book, calendar and instant messaging.

The battle in the virtualization market enters a new phase: Sun Microsystems released new versions of its virtualization software Sun xVM. And a few days ago Red Hat announced its takeover of Qumranet, makers of the virtualizer KVM. Meanwhile Microsoft and Novell are teaming up to counter with their own Microsoft Hyper-V and Suse Linux Enterprise Server offerings.

After discovering that some Fedora servers have been illegally accessed, the Fedora Project is, as of today, converting the signing keys for Linux distribution packages.

U.S. Linux distributor Red Hat has bought the virtual computing solutions vendor Qumranet.