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Linux vendor Red Hat today is angling to position itself as one of the big players in virtualization, today unveiling a slew of new product initiatives designed to penetrate the enterprise on a number of fronts. The company today showed off a new standalone virtualization hypervisor (define) based on KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine), as well as a new hypervisor for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It also took the wraps off new management tools for virtualization on servers and desktops.

Coverity announced today that it published the software architecture maps of 2,500 open source projects in a bid to help developers optimize their code. Coverity also released the architecture mapping tool that it uses to build those maps. The new mapping effort comes at an opportune time for Coverity, which just completed a contract with the Department of Homeland Security to improve open source code security. With the publication of the open source software architectures, Coverity is aiming to further improve open source code development

From the 'what? Linux isn't American??' files: Reuters has an interesting story today titled, "Cuba launches own Linux variant to counter U.S." The gist of the story is that Cuba is now going to produce their own Linux distro called 'Nova' in some sort of attempt to not have to use American software. Nonsense.

The latest version of System Rescue version 1.1.5 is out today and it includes a few notable improvements over its predecessors. But yeaah this distro will still save your butt.

I met MySQL founder Monty Widenius last year in Portland and he wasn't particularly thrilled with Sun at the time - he was however publicly hopeful that things would improve for him. Apparently they didn't. Widenuis has now officially resigned from Sun.

Linux vendor Red Hat is out today with its newest Real Time Linux platform, MRG 1.1 boasting new performance, messaging and grid computing (cloud) capabilities. The new MRG 1.1 platform marks the debut of Red Hat's commercially-supported grid technology, which helps users create their own enterprise clouds as well as leverage the power of Amazon's EC2 service. Red Hat is also claiming significant performance gains with a new Real Time Linux kernel and improved messaging speeds in a bid to appeal to unique sectors such as government, military and financial services.

I've had the good fortune to speak with Zend co-founder and PHP superstar Andi Gutmans several dozen times over the last few years. Though he co-founded Zend, Gutmans has long been its CTO with others taking on the role of CEO. That changes now as Gutmans was named today as the new CEO of Zend.

Like Cisco's AXP, HP will use Linux as the core underlying operating system on which application vendors will deliver their solutions. A Linux 2.6 kernel will sit on top of HP's new ProCurve ONE Services zl Module, which is a blade that plugs into the ProCurve Switch 5400zl and 8200zl series switches. An HP spokesperson explained to InternetNews.com that the Linux OS is being used as a service OS to provide application installations, diagnostics and the checking of application licensing credentials. The applications themselves bring their own OS, just as if they were an appliance.

According to Ahrens, Zimory could not have been built without open source. But a basis in open source also helps to grow use of the public cloud itself, he added. "The Zimory Agent needs to be widely distributed, as many organization that run the open source hypervisors do not have sophisticated management frameworks," Ahrens said. "Therefore, it is key for us that we can distribute our Agent through the open source community."

PDT 2.0 expands on the first release with new usability and object-oriented programming features for PHP (define) developers. The new PDT 2.0 release comes as the PHP language itself continues to evolve and as new languages like Ruby challenge PHP in the web application development space. "To make things clear, PDT 2.0 is focused on creating better usability for PHP developers that create Web applications," Roy Ganor project lead for Eclipse PDT, told InternetNews.com.

Lucid Imagination, new venture to provide commercial support and services for the Apache Lucene text search engine is ramping up with an official launch on January 26, 2009.

One key issue that RHEL 5.3 addresses is Windows Vista interoperability. Red Hat has updated and improved the Samba (define), Linux to Window file sharing technology so that it will support Window Vista. "We have seen demand for Vista compatibility in 2008 and it became a problem that we didn't have really good support for," Riek admitted. "We did some changes on the Samba side to get the new Vista enablement there we also did some work on CIFS (define) side so Linux can work as a client to Windows servers."

The biggest winner in terms of what cloud service open source developers plan to use is Google's App Engine at 28 percent of respondents. Amazon came in second at 15 percent.

Snowl came out of conversations in the Mozilla community starting in 2007 about how to improve messaging on the Internet," Mozilla developer Myk Melez told InternetNews.com. "Its goal is to find ways to help users track and participate in conversations wherever they happen, not just on social networks."

Though Sun recently shed thousands of jobs, it's actually now hiring - well for at least one key position. Sun is looking for a Software Senior Staff Engineer to work on the MySQL open source Drizzle project.

Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields has named the winner of the Fedora 11 naming sweepstakes...and the winner is: LEONIDAS. Leonidas (and his band of over 300) beat out Blarney, Brasilia Claypool, Duchess, Euryalus, Indomitable, and Zampone as names for Fedora 11.

From the 'what's in a name' files: Red Hat's Fedora Linux is currently in the process of developing Fedora Linux 11, but first the new distro will need a name. So in the spirit of openness Fedora has opened up the naming of Fedora 11 to a vote

Red Hat is reporting an increase in revenues and income for it third quarter of its fiscal 2009 year. The most interesting part of the Red Hat numbers (for me at least) was the disclosure by CEO Jim Whitehurst that one of the top 25 deals closed by Red Hat during the quarter was one where the user moved from a Free version of Linux to a paid Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription. Whitehurst pegged the deal at "6 figures" for a single year - so that means $100,000 plus.

OpenVAS is now out with its 2.0 release, which still shows some of its Nessus roots but isn't focused on keeping up with what's happening on the main Nessus effort. The Nessus fork is now carving out its own niche and moving out of the shadow of its creation.

While GNOME remains the Linux desktop of choice for Linux enterprise distributions, on openSUSE KDE is dominant among the user base. 70 percent of the openSUSE user base uses the KDE desktop. Though OpenSUSE 11.1 includes KDE 4.1, Novell developers actually backported a number of features from the upcoming KDE 4.2 release.