Kernel 2.6 maintainer Andrew Morton's wish has come true now that he has found not just one, but two new embedded maintainers, Paul Gortmaker and David Woodhouse.

Version 20080519 of VMKnoppix (previously known as Xenoppix), a live distribution specifically designed for virtualization has just been released.

The Open Graphics project has released specifications for its first card and will accept orders at a price of US$ 1500.

Hardware specialist Intel and embedded systems manufacturer Wind River are aiming to put Linux on wheels. Both enterprises have announced their intention to release a jointly developed Linux platform for the automotive industry.

The GnuTLS project has published two bugfix releases to close several vulnerabilities and resolve an error capable of interrupting connections.

Version 3.0.0 of Jasper Reports, a free Java report generating library with advanced export functionality has just been released.

The security and quality of Open Source software just keeps on improving, as code analysis by Coverity reveals.

Three simple photos are causing a stir right now: they show kernel inventor Linus Torvalds talking to the ZFS inventor Jeff Bonwick and thus fire rumors about the filesystem being added to the Linux kernel.

The first release candidate of Firefox 3 sees the Mozilla developers well ahead of their original roadmap which envisaged a test version at the end of May.

RPath has released version 2 of its Linux distribution which is mainly designed for producing customized software appliances.