The Document Foundation announced formation of the LibreOffice Advisory Board. Four big names -Google, FSF, Red Hat and SUSE – have already board set up to provide guidance to the LibreOffice project.

Do your friends ask you for help with their PC? Do you get tired of making little road-trips to provide them with your help? The answers to this problem have been around for a long time. Here’s one of my favorite solutions.

Attachmate Corporation has agreed to buy Novell for a sum of 2.2 billion. Novell is also selling it’s IP to a Microsoft headed consortium.

Novell the company behind Suse Linux has recently received an unsolicited buyout offer from a hedge fund. The offer states the value of Novell at $1.8 billion.