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Google has anounced its upcoming Android 1.5 Linux OS platform, based on the cupcake branch. Some new features are the video recording option & extensive widget support.

At the Linux Collaboration Summit, the director of Intel's Open Source Technology Center talked about the upcoming Moblin Linux OS.

Vuurmuur 0.7 is released. Vuurmuur (Dutch for Firewall) is a powerful Firewall Manager built on top of Iptables on Linux. Vuurmuur has a simple and easy to learn configuration that allows both simple & complex configurations. The configuration can be fully configured through an Ncurses GUI, which allows secure remote administration through SSH, or on the console. Vuurmuur supports traffic shaping, has powerful monitoring features, which allow the administrator to look at the logs, connections & bandwidth usage in realtime.

Linux Mint 6 "KDE" edition is released. This edition is based on Kubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex. This KDE edition comes with a brand new "Software Manager", FTP support in mintUpload, proxy support and history of updates in mintUpdate, mint4win (a Linux Mint installer for Microsoft Windows), and a lot of other improvements.

For the first time it's possible to choose which kernel you want to use for the popular Linux distro Debian, either the Linux kernel, or the FreeBSD kernel.

Novell has established a research & development team specifically for developing Linux Operating Systems for use in netbook PCs, according to Novell Taiwan.

Hewlett Packard is considering to install Google's Android Linux Operating System onto their Netbooks.

The popular Linux distribution Ubuntu has it latest Beta version released, version 9.04. This Beta is running fine on several Netbooks, as both Liliputing.com & the Ubuntu Mini Blog are reporting.

OpenGeeeU Luna Serena (8.10), the special OpenGEU version dedicated to the EeePC, is available for download now. OpenGeeeU 8.10 has been built over EasyPeasy 8.10, so it is optimized for your netbook & it includes all of the drivers & fixes needed for your Asus Eee PC to work well out of the box.

Moblin V2 alpha 2 has been released, this tiny Linux edition is suitable for various mobile devices like Netbooks.

Linpus - known from their Linpus Linux pre-installed onto Acer Aspire One Netbooks - announced at the CEBIT they've entered into a strategic partnership with Insyde Software - provider of UEFI firmware -, to improve the boot speed & access to the applications of the Linpus Linux version for netbooks.

Microsoft who is already suffering from Netbook makers using the older Windows XP & custom-made distros of Linux, probably won ’t find a remedy with their upcoming Windows 7.

One of the cheapest netbooks on the market is the 3K Razorbook/Longitude 400. By default Little Linux Laptop OS is pre-installed. Untill now there wasn't an alternative Operating System, because these netbooks don't use an Intel x86 compatible processor, but an Xburst processor. Now there's an alternative OS called 3MX.

Mark Shuttleworth, the founder and leader of Ubuntu, recently announced the next version of Ubuntu - Karmic Koala (v 9.10) will improve the Ubuntu experience on netbooks.

ASUS is considering to install the Linux-based Google Android OS on future Eee PCs.

Phoenix Technologies announced their HyperSpace software now works with ARM processors, so it will be available for very cheap netbooks.

FluxFlux-Se has been released today. FluxFlux is a PCLinuxOS Remaster & provides a fully configured and ready-to-use live system containing all typical programs for the average user.

Kuki Linux (pronouced “cookie”) is a new Linux distribution, optimized for the Acer Aspire One netbooks.

Moblin v2 Core Alpha has been released. Moblin is a custom Linux distro optimized for netbooks & mobile internet devices (MIDs).

Easy Peasy (netbook optimized Ubuntu Linux) which was released a few weeks ago will have a few nice new features in the upcoming 2.0 release.