Nat Friedman, the one-time CTO for open source at Novell is no longer at Novell. His last day was Friday. Friedman came to Novell by way of the acquisition of Ximian - a GNOME company he co-founded with Miguel De Icaza.

VMware is poised Tuesday to further redefine its cloud strategy by buying Yahoo's Zimbra open source messaging business in order to expand its stake in the platform-as-a-service market. Zimbra, bought by Yahoo in 2007 for $350 million, is an open source messaging platform popular on the Linux and Mac OS platforms and with universities and service providers.

Thursday evening I broke my install on my Eee PC 1000HE in such a way that I needed to recover the data from my /home partition and reinstall the OS. I thought that since I'm waiting for EB4 I may as well just install another distribution and play.

It’s a very important version of Ubuntu Tweak, it has new fresh interface, the ability to sync data from the website and lots of new options added.

Price isn't everything, but for consumers who opt for unlimited data and voice plans, the Apple iPhone and Motorola Droid are looking extra-expensive compared to some of the competition.

Most of you probably know “Fences”, a program that organizes your cluttered desktop by letting you create and put boxes called “Fences” on your desktop and then you can create multiple fences and put your icons in them. I was a little disappointed when i couldn’t find any Linux alternative to Fences BUT, this problem has been solved because of a screenlet called “Folder view.”

Kaseya -- a fast-growing provider or remote systems management tools -- is preparing to introduce remote management software for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Novell SUSE Linux, and other Linux distributions. Here are the details.

Mozilla spun out a near-ready version of Firefox 3.6 over the weekend, all of which suggests that the final build of the next iteration of the open source browser could be imminent.