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Though the financial services market in the US is in bailout mode this week - the CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) is hedging its bets -- with Linux.

So Ubuntu is taking a little heat for not being the world's largest contributor to the kernel.org community. BUT they are about to finally join a major effort to improve Linux kernel quality for all. Ubuntu is on the verge of fully participating in the Kernel Oops project run by Intel's Arjan van de Ven

"There is a need for something, something to explain the license I'm not sure I would call it a EULA because that has a meaning to many people of adding restrictions to software and we won't be doing that," Baker said. "We'll be having a license agreement much as Red Hat has a license agreement that says the software is available under the GPL and don't use our trademarks etcetera. So we'll have a license agreement but we won't think of it as a EULA."

For years there have been those that have accused Ubuntu of not contributing enough to the upstream development of Linux. Mark Shuttleworth founder and leader of Ubuntu is tired of the criticism and is now putting more of his money and resources into upstream development

After 10 years in Portland, Oregon, OSCON - O'Reilly's Open Source Conference is moving in 2009 to the San Franciso Bay area. I was just at OSCON this past August in Portland and it's somewhat sad to think that it was the last OSCON to be held in Portland.

"When you put it all together, we're the optimized guest on Windows Server 2008 and we're going to be the best managed Linux that a system center customer can have," Dorfman said. "We really want to be the optimized Linux for the windows environment."

The most powerful physics projects in the history of known universe - The $10 Billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC)- shot its first light speed beam this morning around its 27 km circuit. Beyond the 20 years it took to build and half of all the world's astrophysicists it also takes another key ingredient to make LHC work -- Linux.

For years, Xen and VMware have been the virtualization technologies of choice for open source operating systems vendors. With Red Hat's acquisition of Qumranet yesterday and its competing Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) open source hypervisor the winds of change may be blowing, or not. While Red Hat is now betting at least $107 million that KVM is the future of virtualization, other vendors in the open source virtualization space aren't so sure.

Red Hat is taking aim at every other virtualization vendor - be it Citrix, VMware or Microsoft - with this buy. The argument is simple: The OS is critical and the OS is what Red Hat is all about. "You may not know this but most virtualization solutions today use components developed by Red Hat for their critical functions," Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens said on a conference call. "These competitors are highly dependent on Red Hat for feature development and hardware enablement - no one is better equipped to carry open source leadership forward."

Captcha images are commonplace on Web site applications and forms. With its latest framework, Zend is introducing a new Captcha Form Element that can provide multiple types of Captcha mechanisms. Among them is Captcha integration for something called FIGlets, group of large characters built out of ASCII characters that outline a letter or word. "We've finally found a use for them other than just drawing pictures," Sinclair explained. "You can use them for Captcha now and it's hard for machines to figure out the characters."

When Linux crashes, users don't get a Blue Screen like they do on Windows. Instead, Linux generates an "oops" -- a crash signature that can help developers to figure out what went wrong. Keeping track of the "oopses" is the duty of the Kerneloops.org project, and according to supporters, its efforts have improved kernel quality and fixed a large number of bugs -- a thrust that's critical for Linux as it angles for even greater adoption in the enterprise and elsewhere.

Servers for both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora Linux were compromised in recent weeks by some kind of illegal access. Neither project however is currently admitting than any of their software or users were in any way directly affected by the illegal access.

Standing at the headwaters of the ecosystem that is Linux is the Linux Foundation and its executive director Jim Zemlin. The Linux Foundation was forged out of the merger of the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and the Free Standards Group in 2007 as a new group with a new mandate for Linux. Now some 20 months after the Linux Foundation was created, Zemlin is claiming the group is succeeding and argues that it will remain relevant for the next 50 years. The Linux Foundation's goal is to promote and develop the Linux platform as it ramps up against Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Unix and embedded OS vendors.

Microsoft isn't just buying Linux subscriptions from Novell to give away...it's buying them so they can sell them. So that means for the past 18 months, Microsoft has been selling Linux. How much Microsoft is actually making by selling Linux is difficult to determine but it could be as much a $99 million.

What does the future hold for Linux development at Red Hat? A look at some of the new features coming in the Fedora 10 Linux distribution release might yield some clues. Currently in early development with a feature freeze scheduled for the end of August, Fedora 10 includes a host of improvements that aim to improve audio, packaging, networking and security features.

The Mozilla Foundation has named Mark Surman as its new Executive Director effective September 22. Surman is currently serving as an Open Philanthropy Fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation.

Open source is about a lot more than just Linux, though open source software vendors can learn a lot from the success of Linux. That's where open source database vendor EnterpriseDB is headed with its new CEO Ed Boyajian, who was recruited out of Linux leader Red Hat in June. In an interview with InternetNews.com, Boyajian explained how the lessons learned from Red Hat about growing an open source business can be used to grow an open source database business as well.

From the "who needs a pre-load when you're embedded" files: Dude - if you're getting a Dell then you're getting Linux. No you don't have to order one of those fancy Ubuntu pre-load deals. This is an embedded Linux that will be available on a whole bunch of new Dell Latitude laptops in a feature called Latitude ON.

Linux vendor Canonical is working hard to get more software and hardware certifications for its Ubuntu Linux distribution. In its latest round of partnerships, Canonical is expanding its relationship with IBM (NYSE: IBM), Alfresco, Zimbra, Likewise, Centrify and others. Yet though Canonical is trying valiantly to show momentum in its alliances, at least two notable companies are missing from its partner lineup for Ubuntu. Neither Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) nor SAP (NYSE: SAP) currently support Ubuntu, and both lack immediate plans to do so.

Tracking security is an ongoing concern in the software industry. Oracle and Cisco use a system called Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), while Microsoft recently announced its the Exploitability Index project. Both projects rely on evaluating the risk potential from exploitation. Mozilla's security metrics will take a different route. "We did look at exploitability at the very beginning and we decided that was a factor that is hard to capture and not all that useful," Window Snyder said. "We don't have a lot of evidence that Firefox users are being exploited."