Linus Torvalds has released the new 2.6.25 kernel just slightly behind schedule. Besides improvements to the CFS scheduler and a plethora of new drivers, the kernel also introduces a political aspect: it debars non-GPLd USB drivers.

The Open Office project has just announced that the latest 2.4 version of the free office suite removes a number of security issues.

According to reports, the department of education in the Australian state of New South Wales has decided to install Open Office on its 41,000 computers.

It's official: Microsoft's Office Open XML format (OOXML) has been accepted as a new standard at a second hearing

Open Office 2

The Open Office project has just released the final version 2.4 of its free office software.

In his blog, Avi Alkalay, an Open Standards, Open Source and Linux advisor at IBM Brazil, reports on the official Brazilian vote, which was decided by consensus of the entire technical team, and quite firmly says that OOXML does not deserve to be an international ISO standard.

The Open Office project has again postponed the release date for the next version of its office software package.

Skype, the free VoIP software, has left beta status and advanced to stable Version 2.0.