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From the "but where is RHEL 6?" files: Red Hat is out today with a beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.3. If I'm not mistaken this should be the last major update to RHEL before the release of RHEL 6 which should come sometime in 2009. RHEL 5.3 adds a long list of enhancements to Red Hat's flagship Linux distribution.

With Moblin 2.0, Intel is integrating in an open source technology called Clutter. Clutter is an open source animation framework that allows for the development of applications in the same way you would develop games. The underlying complexity is abstracted such that intricate UI can be built with a minimum of code. "Because it's developed like a game engine, all the graphics happen on the GPU (define), freeing up CPU do to application work," he said. "When combing with Atom and the various GPU's we use in Moblin supported platforms, you end up with advanced UI platforms. We really think it will create a huge opportunity for application innovation on top of Moblin."

Ubuntu Founder Mark Shuttleworth admitted today his company is not cash flow positive. That's despite the fact that Chris Kenyon, director of business development at Canonical told me that Canonical has 8 million users and growing revenues. On a conference call with press and analysts today, Shuttleworth said some really amazing things about his business and it's lack of currently profitability and his view that the money isn't on the Linux desktop.

"We're not sharing our revenues publicly but I will say revenue growth is extremely strong and we're bullish across the board both at server side and desktop," Kenyon said. "The difference between now and even 12 months ago in terms of size and volume of deals coming through is a big difference."

Sun co-founder Andreas von Bechtolsheim is giving up his full-time job at the company to focus on a startup networking play. Founded in 2004 and formerly known as Arastra, Arista shipped its first product releases in late 2007. The core of its lineup is its 7100 platform, which is a 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching platform that has a Linux-based operating system at its core, dubbed Arista EOS. The goal with EOS is to create a highly scalable platform that is specifically tailored for the needs of cloud computing in the datacenter, Karam said. EOS is based on a Red Hat Fedora Linux core that Arista said has been modified and hardened.

With all the skills that Red Hat has, you'd think they could build a community site on their own… they can't. "Our core business is really the middleware projects to do with the application server and enterprise service bus," JBoss.org leader Mark Newton told InternetNews.com. "So it's not really in our interest to build our own CMS just for our own Web site. We felt we could offer better service to our community by leveraging the work of another open source CMS."

"We're seeing organizations still willing to work on new systems," Miller claimed. "We're seeing people leaving financial institutions like Lehman Brothers or Bear Stearns and starting new organization that need new installs. We're seeing a lot of opportunity in all this doom and gloom."

Fixing bugs becomes increasingly important at release time - which is where Debian is now at with the upcoming "lenny" release. Debian is gearing up for a bug sprint to fix remaining bugs (about 100 key ones) and is offering a unique incentive to developers - free cookies.

The Linux Foundation is set to release a report on Wednesday estimating that the Linux ecosystem is now worth $25 billion. Of that $1.3 billion is from Google and its use of Linux for the Android mobile OS.

Who's afraid of open source? "When splashy headlines come up about Verizon, the uninformed can think very negative things about open source and have this fear," Philip Robb, general manager of FOSSBazaar.org said. "But you just have to recognize how it's different. Avoiding open source is probably going to be a competitive detriment to your organization so you should just try and stay informed."

"Merb started as a way to do things that Rails couldn't do efficiently, but over time, it became more like a Rails replacement," Yehuda Katz, Merb's project maintainer and developer, told InternetNews.com. "For Merb 1.0, it pretty much does everything that Rails knows how to do. The main difference is that Merb focuses on efficiency and speed as well as modularity and hackability."

Cisco is asking developers to instead think "inside the box" to create applications that will run on the Linux based Cisco AXP module. It's tossing in $100,000 in prize money just to keep it interesting. Linux Application availability alone isn't the only thing Cisco is after. It's making sure the developer ecosystem has a revenue model that will keep Cisco and developers in the black.

There is a big Linux event in NYC today and tomorrow - but I won't be there. The Linux Foundation's End User Collaboration Summit has some big names presenting including Novell's CEO Ron Hovsepian, Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth, Red Hat EVP and an impressive list of financial industry executives from UBS, NYSE, Credit Suisse, CME and AIG. But I won't be there to hear any of them in person. The Linux Foundation has decided to keep the End User Collaboration event as a closed event without press (at least that's what they told me)

Hacking into systems (albeit for testing purposes) is apparently getting easier with the upcoming open source Metasploit 3.2 framework, according to its creator. During a packed presentation at that SecTor conference here yesterday, Metasploit creator H. D. Moore detailed some of the new features in the upcoming Metasploit 3.2 release. They include names such as Browser AutoPwn, Metasploit in the Middle and the Evil Wireless Access Point. "For http we do a whole bunch of evil things to a browser," Moore said,

As I had predicted earlier this year LinuxWorld is no more. Well not quite. LinuxWorld the big Linux show that occurs ever year in San Francisco is morphing into a new show called OpenSource World. The re-naming follows a move by O'Reilly to bring the OSCON conference to San Francisco earlier this year

Even though Mono 2.0 is compatible with Microsoft's .NET 2.0, it's not in full compliance with the latest .NET releases from Microsoft. The Mono effort is important as it is intended to enable .NET applications to run on Linux. "We're certainly doing catch up in some areas," Mono project leader Miguel de Icaza told InternetNews.com.

The open source Python programming language is on the verge a sweeping revamp in the form of version 3.0 of its platform -- a release will deviate in many ways from the current, mainline Python 2.x series. So how do you meet the needs of current 2.x Python developers while transitioning to the bleeding edge of Python 3.0 development? That's where the new Python 2.6 release comes into play.

Seeing the Fedora Project pass its five year milestone got me thinking about the early days of the community-based Linux distribution and how far it's come. At the time of its launch, I was plenty worried. Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) was effectively killing off its namesake Linux distribution – Red Hat Linux -- and turning over the development into a community-based Linux distribution called Fedora Core. How could Red Hat do such a thing? Long-time users like me were calling it total madness and surely a recipe for disaster. History has proven me wrong.

Despite a slowing U.S. economy, Linux vendor Red Hat continues to grow, thanks in part to uptake of its JBoss middleware solutions as well as an expanding business for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux solutions. But it cautioned investors not to expect an immediate return from its recent moves in virtualization and from other initiatives, like Fedora.

With new browsers, new standards and new technologies like HTML 5 and Firefox 4 on the horizon, Mozilla has a lot to be optimistic about.