The Lightning add-on lets users upgrade their Mozilla Thunderbird email client and turn it into a convenient, versatile groupware product.

The Ubuntu security team has released an update to close a vulnerability in the Vorbis Tools for editing music files in Ogg-Vorbis format.

Linux consultant Matthias Kettner has just released Version 1.0 of his Waitmax Software. It gives programs a specified time to complete after terminating them.

The Gnome project has published plans for 2.24 and future versions of its desktop environment.

You don’t have to be an expert to set up your own Quake 3 game server.

Red Hat's David Airlie reports in his blog that a simple hack allowed him to develop an X server without root privileges in the course of just one afternoon.

The Mozilla project has just announced the availability of the initial alpha version of Thunderbird 3, codenamed "Shredder".

New releases of the two competing Web technologies, Flash and Silverlight, have just become available. While version 10 of the new Flash Player runs on three platforms, the Silverlight implementation, Moonlight, is designed exclusively for Linux systems.

In preparation for the first stable version, the WINE project has now frozen the current state of development ("Code Freeze").