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Currently Microsoft is feeling the full impact of the global economic slowdown. Reduced demand for its Windows OS & other software products has had a negative impact on the software giant. Both sales & profit are down. Meanwhile, Linux isn't feeling any impact at all.

The Gnome team has released a Beta version of the Gnome Desktop Environment, version 2.28.0 beta1.

Tiny Core Linux v2.2 is released. It is a very small (10 MB) minimal Linux Desktop, which runs very well on a Netbook.

The Gnome team has released an update of the Gnome Desktop Environment, version 2.27.5. The highlights of this new release are Brasero 2.27.5, fixed memleaks, lot's of bug fixes, added documentation to libbrasero-burn and lots of Translation updates.

Version 1.2.3.of GeeXboX is released. GeeXboX is a free embedded Linux distribution which aims at turning your computer into a Home Theater PC, or Media Center.

MilaX 0.4 is released. MilaX is a Solaris based Operating System & is a small size Live CD distribution which runs completely off a CD or a USB pendrive.

The first Alpha release of the Joilicloud OS is available. Jolicloud is an Internet operating system. It combines the 2 driving forces of the modern computing industry: the open source & the open web.

The team behind the Puppy Linux project has released the first maintenance release of Puppy Linux 4.2, version 4.2.1. Puppy Linux provides a very small, yet complete Linux desktop, with a lot of useful applications, many supported hardware devices and a pleasant user interface.

Red Hat has announced their latest release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, version 4.8. This is the 8th major update to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 OS.

Canonical is preparing to launch a new Web service called Ubuntu One, which will bring cloud synchronization & collaboration features to the Linux desktop.

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global Linux based Android smartphone shipments will grow 900% in 2009.

Intel & Novell today announced broad efforts to closely collaborate & encourage OEMs & ODMs to adopt Moblin, an optimized open source Linux software platform for enabling rich Internet experiences on Intel Atom processor-based netbooks & other mobile systems.

The popular Linux Desktop Environment KDE is now upgraded to version 4.2.3. This release contains several bugfixes & enhancements.

Most Netbooks aren't suitable to run "heavy" Operating Systems like Windows Vista, or XP. That's the reason why many users are installing a Linux distro onto their Netbook & some manufacturers like ASUS & Acer do offer their Netbooks with Linux pre-installed.

Vuurmuur 0.8 bèta 1 is released. Vuurmuur (Dutch for Firewall) is a powerful Firewall Manager built on top of the Linux Iptables.

The popular media manager Boxee has been updated for the latest Ubuntu 9.04.

China-based Skytone is the first manufacturer who offers a Netbook with the Android Operating System, the Alpha 680.

The first bugfix-release of xfce 4.6 has been released & is now updated to version 4.6.1. Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for unix-like operating systems.

Blogger Gustavo noticed its very hard to get hold of a laptop from Dell with Linux pre-installed. After a long search he did find Laptops from Dell with Ubuntu pre-installed, but they were very hard to find! On its Spanish, British, French & German sites, Dell lists the Ubuntu pre-installed computers it offers. But not all of them. It shows only Ubuntu netbooks & hides the others, according to Gustavo.

The new Shuttle X270V Nettop (compact PC) comes with openSUSE Linux pre-installed.