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

Klaus Knopper has released version 5.3.1 of his live Knoppix system. The codebase comes courtesy of Lenny, the next generation Debian.

The Ubuntu team has released the first, and probably only, beta version of the next generation of Ubuntu with Long Term Support (LTS), Ubuntu 8.04.

The Fedora project has just released the beta version of the upcoming Fedora 9 distribution.

Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded (UME) will be out soon, and Linux Magazine Brazil had a preview at Bossa Conference 2008, presented by Adilson Oliveira from Canonical. UME is targeted at connectivity devices, such as UMPCs and MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices), but not at cell phones, as they are "too closed", according to Oliveira.

Wine, the Windows API for Linux is moving towards the first stable version, 1.0, in its history of 15 years of development.

The Debian Installer team has just released the first beta version of its installer for the next Debian release, Lenny.

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