Steve Ballmer's deal with the Catalonian government is seen as a leverage against their existing Open Source strategy.

If Google were to use Qt, things would be much simpler and Chrome would have a unified interface under Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. But Google isn't satisfied with Qt.

In October 2007 IP Innovation filed a lawsuit against Novell and Red Hat for violation of certain virtual desktop patents. Red Hat is now asking the community for help to invalidate it.

HP and Canonical are working together to get Ubuntu certified for HPs Proliant servers.

Brazil's municipal schools should be getting more than 350,000 power-saving thin clients for their students.

U.S. Linux vendor Red Hat has entered a cooperation agreement with Microsoft in technical support of server virtualization.

Xandros has launched an ARM based Linux version for netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices at the Mobile World Congress in Spain's Barcelona.

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.