Amarok 2.3.1, codenamed “The Bell” has been released. Here is a brief list of what has changed in Amarok 2.3.1.

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat has been code frozen and the first milestone Alpha 1 will be released on schedule. The first Alpha of Maverick Meerkat is expected on June 3, 2010.

The KOffice team has just announced the release of KOffice 2.2.

The first beta of KDE SC 4.5 has been released.

Fedora 13, codenamed Goddard, has been released with some exciting new features.

Mandriva is a merger of the Mandrake and the Conectiva distro. Though, it seems like the company is in heavy losses and wll be acquired by Linagora this year.

It’s small, fast, free and really pretty to watch. It’s a great place to start for those who’ve never used Linux before.

RedHat has recently upgraded its Linux server product to RHEL 5.5 with many new features and performance improvements. The latest OS from RedHat has improved support for Windows Interportability and Kernel-based Virtual Machine.

Jolicloud Robby Pre-final has been released, it contains new webapp built on Chrome which supports HTML5, a new network manager and new desktop mode.

OpenSolaris 2010.02 was scheduled to release in February this year but was already pushed to March once. Now, we are nearing the end of March and OpenSolaris 2010.03, scheduled to be released in early March is still not there.

Isn’t the CLI( Command Line Interface) what we left behind years ago? Isn’t that what we have been trying to beautify by writing programs to add a front-end to our boring illegible command line applications?

Red Star OS has been developed by North Korean IT specialists to meet the needs and requirements of the North Korean people and the government, respectively.

Linux Mint 8 “Helena” Fluxbox Community Edition and Linux Mint 8 “Helena” KDE64 Community Edition have been released. The Fluxbox Edition is Linux Mint 8 “Helena” with the Fluxbox Window manager. The KDE64 edition is identical to Linux Mint 8 “Helena” KDE Edition only that it runs on machines with 64-bit processors.

The Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week has been announced between 1st to 6th March to enable opportunistic developers to start writing applications using tools like Python, Glade, Quickly and Ground Control and make development on Ubuntu fun and accessible.

One of the most refined Linux distributions, openSUSE announces the availability of the first Milestone build of the upcoming version, openSUSE 11.3.