So, what's one more operating system between friends? Linspire is preparing a new Linux-based operating system that uses AJAX as the interface for all of its applications and documents.

Another brick in the wall of Web services standards fell into place this week.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) ratified Web Services Addressing 1.0 as a standard, removing another stumbling block on the road to interoperability among distributed computing systems.

FreeBSD developers continue to improve the FreeBSD 6.X operating system branch with the release of version 6.1 this week.