The Central Board of Directors approved the document "Standards file format office" presented by the Commission Sector Development Computer recommends that the use of open standards ODF and PDF for the creation, storage and exchange of documents in the office and udelen in its relationship with the rest of society.

Have you heard about ZFS? It’s a generation-defining stable high-performance high-end filesystems, created by Jeff Bonwick at Sun, and ported over to Mac OS X and the BSD family. Oh, and for Linux, using the FUSE (Filesystem in userspace) kernel abstraction. Here’s my ZFS story.

Another important sign of ODF adoption; OpenOffice.org team impressed with download pace

Nokia has bought up the bits of Symbian it didn't already own and is chucking the OS into an open-source foundation along with the S60 UI layer, accompanied by Sony Ericsson and DoCoMo, who are throwing in UIQ and MOAP(S) respectively.

This version contains another major improvement in the track editor: the route information will now be automatically re-calculated when you make changes to the track. This is an important step towards completeness of the track editor. Other changes are a more user-friendly settings editor, and a different slip model, which should make the car handling a bit easier.

AS GOOGLE'S Android struggles to make it into concrete products, Nokia has probably dealt it a knockout blow by buying Symbian entirely and helping to take the whole Symbian ecosystem open source.

Openmoko has begun shipping its Linux-based, open source Neo Freerunner smartphone, via distributors in Germany, France, and India. The Neo Freerunner features an open hardware design, and a Linux-based operating system that users are free to modify.