Exactly 17 years ago, on October 5, 1991, Linus Torvalds sent an email to the comp.os.minix newsgroup.

On September 29, 13 out of 23 employees from the technical committee of Standard Norge signed an open letter announcing their resignations. The reason: Norway’s “yes” to OOXML

A new bugfix for KDE 4.1, codenamed 'Codename', has been released by the KDE community.

The upcoming Ubuntu 8.10, alias Intrepid Ibex, is now in beta.

Around $330 gets you a Linux-based Pandora handheld by shopping online, although the first buyers had to hurry.

Sun Microsystems provides its own solution for identity management called OpenSSO. The software is available free as Open Source and becomes a Sun product with added support and services.

On the OpenSuse announcement board, Marcus Meissner stated that as of November 30. 2008, official support for OpenSuse 10.2 will end. After that, Novell/the OpenSuse Project will provide no further security updates for Version 10.2.

The GIMP graphics program includes many new and interesting features in version 2.6.

Multimedia software MPlayer notifies of security holes in the Real demuxer code that can result in arbitrary code execution.

In its monthly publicized Webserver survey, the Netcraft service announced that Apache has further increased its lead over Microsoft IIS.