Klaus Knopper has updated his Live Linux Knoppix to 6.2 and chose LXDE as the desktop environment. Also included is ADRIANE, the talking menu system for the sight-impaired, in version 1.2

The openSUSE project took an exceptionally long time to get its current version 11.2 to market. It's been almost a year since openSUSE 11.1.

With Sidux 2009-03, code-named Momos, the Sidux project provides the next version of its distro based on Debian sid.

OpenSUSE updates will, in future, be decided by a joint panel of Novell staff and community members. Only security updates will be decided by Novell alone.

French Mandriva user Olivier Faurax registered a support case at Skype complaining about a missing Mandriva package. Instead of the package he received a reply of some amazement.

The latest version of the Austrian pocketknife Linux distribution was released just in time for Halloween.

The OpenOffice project has celebrated the 100,000,000 download of its free office suite since the release of version 3.0.