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Lycoris CEO Joseph Cheek will join Mandriva to develop "a new and advanced Linux desktop product."

A new version of the Linux kernel has been released, adding support for virtualization and showcasing the use of a new release-management tool developed by Linux inventor Linus Torvalds himself.

Although reluctant to deploy open source software within its corporate network, Australia Post, has developed a time-keeping system for some 35,000 employees using a collection of open source tools.

The move to release the source code for the open-source version of Sun's Solaris operating system drives Sun further into a support and services revenue model.

Notebook vendor Targa has reacted to the accusations from the project gpl-violations.org. On its web site, the company writes that "the Targa Quake Media included in the Targa Traveller 826T is based on Linux and contains program parts licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL)." Targa uses these program parts "expressly in accordance with the GPL." The company expressed its regret for failing to include a copy of the text of the license with its Traveller 826T notebook, which is on sale at Lidl.

Mandriva today announced an agreement to purchase several assets from Lycoris, a major North American Linux distribution for home users. As part of this agreement, Lycoris' founder and CEO Joseph Cheek is joining Mandriva to develop a new and advanced Linux desktop product.

Company updates commercial Linux product with support for chips with dual processing engines from Intel, AMD.

Nokia is leveraging technology from both open-source programmers and Apple in the new mobile phone browser it announced this week at its annual conference in its hometown of Helsinki.

Live CDs can be useful for testing an operating system or performing special operations -- assuming there's a live CD distro that does what you need. Unfortunately, if you are running a special application, especially one you wrote yourself, no live CD will be tailored exactly to your needs. But creating you own live CD is easier than you might think, with Slax and its easy customization utility MySlax Creator.

Competitors and analysts are waiting to see whether possible Linux challenger OpenSolaris will build enough of a community to change Sun's business future.

Robbins' recruitment comes as Microsoft makes increasingly friendly noises towards Linux. According to reports, Red Hat chief executive and prez Matthew Szulik has been courted by Microsoft and even joined chief software architect Bill Gates for lunch at an exclusive New York eaterie earlier this year.

Core 4, the latest version of the community-supported Linux distribution, is largely drawn from the work of Red Hat programmers.

A Milter is a multi-threaded email-filtering program. Milters run in parallel to sendmail, and can review every aspect of every email message. Multiple Milters can run in parallel, each dealing with a different aspect of email. Milters can be shared among several sendmail processes, even sendmail processes located on separate machines, even when those machines are in separate towns or countries. In this way, spam/virus suppression can be central to a mail server and, at the same time, available to its MX backup servers.

Recently we published an interview with Linus Torvalds on the similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD operating systems. As a follow-up, I asked similar questions of OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt, and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas.

Good news for South African artists and content producers is that they can now licence their works under a South Africa-specific Creative Commons licence. Also local language versions are in the pipeline.

Batch versions of physicochemical property prediction and systematic naming software modules, suitable for working with tens of thousands of compounds at a time, are now available to run on Linux

A trio of vendors is preparing to release open-source reporting tools, looking for profits by selling support and enhanced versions of free, open-source software. The availability of open-source tools will bring welcome competition and price pressure to a market that has long been dominated by proprietary software such as Business Object's Crystal Reports and Cognos's ReportNet. The three would-be market disrupters, business intelligence (BI) veteran Actuate and start-ups JasperSoft and Pentaho, want to emulate MySQL's open-source database-market success by offering low entry costs and products with developer appeal.

Top-level Eclipse project proposed by Wind River approved; Sub-projects for target management and device debugging initiated

Two years ago, Japanese Linux server operating system developer Miracle Linux Corp. decided it needed to better promote its local Linux distribution. It developed two aims, according to Miracle's president, Takeshi Sato.

Debian sarge has finally been released -- now what? If you ask me (and you didn't, but I'm going to tell you anyway), Debian should have two overarching priorities for the next release: 1. putting a timed release cycle in place, so what happened with sarge never happens again; and 2. keeping the growing family of Debian derivatives united around a common core -- namely, Debian itself. What's at stake? If we don't do something about both of these problems, actual and potential, Debian will be irrelevant by the time etch is out.