A new version of GIMP - the free graphics suite par excellence - has been released. GIMP ver 2.7.4 , which is termed as an unstable release leading to a stable version 2.8 sometime in January next year, brings a lot of new features.
HP has contributed webOS to the open source community. webOS is a mobile OS originally created by Palm. It uses HTML, CSS, and JavaScript heavily in the application layer of the stack. This is an obvious advantage for developers as applications can be easily built using standard web technologies.
GNOME team have unveiled GNOME Shell extensions. These are small bits of code that help you customize different user interface aspects of your GNOME 3 desktop.