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Linux e-mail vendor @Mail Monday released an open source version of its Webmail client and is making it available for free.

Yahoo will make available to all developers its Search Monkey platform on Thursday, another step in its wide-ranging effort to open up its sites and services.

Verizon Wireless is throwing its support behind mobile Linux, becoming the first US operator to join the LiMo Foundation, a group developing mobile Linux technology.

As its stock price plummets, Yahoo's executives must do something tangible and do it quickly to prove to shareholders that fighting a takeover bid by Microsoft was the right thing to do, analysts said this week.

While Google's Linux mobile phone platform, Android, has been stealing the spotlight, another longer-standing mobile Linux group is also moving ahead.

The Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Linux project has released version 8 of its operating system with a host of new features aimed at raising the bar over rival Ubuntu.

IBM has gotten so much from the OpenOffice.org office suite to enhance its own products that the company has decided to finally give back in a big way: It's joining the open-source project and will contribute code, developers and other resources for free.

Luke Kanies is a 31 year old system administrator turned developer living in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been a Unix and Linux administrator for ten years, and has spent the last five years focused on developing automation frameworks. In 2003 he founded Reductive Labs to work on new open source automation and administration tools, and Puppet is its first major project. Kanies spoke with Computerworld about Puppet and what it offers IT administrators.

Trolltech AS is offering a suite of products designed to make it easier for mobile phone makers to develop Linux-based smart phones.

Taiwanese electronics company First International Computer (FIC) hopes to replicate the open nature of the PC in mobile phones with the debut of a smartphone running an open Linux-based mobile software platform developed by one of its product managers.

Adobe Systems will contribute source code to the Mozilla Foundation as the two organizations aim to establish a standard scripting language that developers can use to create interactive applications for Adobe's Flash Player and Mozilla's Firefox browser.