Hulu Labs launches Hulu Desktop for Linux, Oct 13, 2009

The Hulu Labs developers have announced the availability of a Linux version of their downloadable native client.

Netgear has announced the release of its WNR3500L Wireless-N router that comes pre-loaded with Linux-based firmware.

openSUSE developer Andreas Jaeger has announced the availability of the eight milestone in the development of openSUSE 11.2, code named Fichte.

The latest version of Linux offers a whole host of new features – for example a USB 3.0 infrastructure, drivers for the Sound Blaster X-Fi, KMS support for Radeon chips and improved versions of Btrfs and Ext4. As is traditional with new Linux versions in the main development branch, however, this is only the tip of the iceberg.

The Slackware developers have announced the release of version 13 of their Linux distribution.

Edward Cahn, a former chief US district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, has been selected to take the reins at SCO following the bankruptcy court's decision to entrust the continuation of SCO Group's business to a bankruptcy trustee.

The Mandriva developers have announced the beta release of Mandriva Linux 2010.

The proceedings of the Linux Symposium 2009 provide wide-ranging background information on Linux

In a long posting on the Debian mailing list, Ubuntu sponsor Mark Shuttleworth sets out his position in the dispute over bringing a fixed development cycle to Debian's GNU/Linux distribution.

The Mandriva developers have announced the availability of the second alpha of Mandriva Linux 2010.

In the dispute over bankruptcy-threatened SCO Group's legal claims, the company has submitted testimony in which it confirms having paid $100,000 to investor Steven Norris.

The Mandriva developers have released a second edition of their Mandriva Linux One (MLO) 2009.1 LiveCD.

Recent early development releases of the popular distributions provide a preview of what's to come, while some lesser known distributions reach new milestones. A new version of the KDE desktop is due by the end of the month.

Ubuntu Release Manager Steve Langasek has announced that Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (code named Dapper Drake) Desktop Edition will reach its end-of-life on Tuesday the 14th of July, 2009.

Berlin's art colleges are completely switching over to Linux.

Cisco has announced the launch of a new Linux powered Wireless-N broadband router with Storage Link and media sharing functionality, the Linksys WRT160NL.

The first alpha of Mandriva Linux 2010 has been released and includes several updates, boot time improvements and new features. The main focus of the 2010 release is to improve the user experience for daily tasks.

In yet another bizarre twist in the interminable legal dispute over source code allegedly illegally copied from UNIX System V into Linux, the SCO Group, which claims ownership of the disputed code, has secured a last-gasp reprieve from the threat of liquidation.

With Linux being used as the foundation for numerous smartphone and mobile internet devices, it is tempting to suggest that this movement is going to open the doorway to desktop Linux. Tempting, but not accurate.

A team of developers from the Interactive Computing Lab at the ENAC (Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile) aeronautics academy in Toulouse, France have successfully created proof-of-concept multi-touch drivers for Linux.