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The latest release of Red Hat's community Linux distribution, Fedora 9, a.k.a. 'Sulfur', is out. The Sulfur release adds a host of new features, including virtualization, authentication, networking, file system and yes, even features that will benefit desktop users. "All of those things really put the lie to any claims that Red Hat is abandoning the desktop," Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields said.

Sun first announced OpenSolaris in 2005 but they keep finding ways to announce 'first releases'. Yesterday was one such release. When will Sun finally give up on this fiasco and realize that Linux has won?

It's very rare that I've every been in a session at any conference session where an attendee heckles the panel and storms out. In a session at Interop on Open Source Risk that's exactly what happened..and it was intense!

Guess what? You can now use Microsoft to monitor/manage Linux and Unix servers as well as open source databases and webservers. Even more surprising is the fact that Microsoft is using open source to enable their management of open source servers and applications. It's all part of the new Miicrosoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 with cross platform extensions.

In the tech business the name Red Hat refers specifically to the publicly traded Linux vendor Red Hat that has been in business since 1995. There is however another Red Hat, that seems to come up in my Google News alerts for the term 'Red Hat'.

The newest Ubuntu Linux long term support (LTS) release, code named 'Hardy Heron' (officially called Ubuntu 8.04) is set to be available today, including both desktop and server editions with a long list of new features. Among them is an innovative new way to install and uninstall Linux with a Microsoft Windows desktop.

Who said Google doesn't contribute to Open Source? This summer they're pumping more money than ever, taking more students than ever and supporting more project then ever before.

SugarCRM the open source customer relationship management (CRM) software platform provider announced today a very large reseller agreement with one of the world's largest telecom providers -- BT (formerly known as British Telecom).

Ubuntu put out a release with the headline stating Ubuntu 8.04 Released. Only problem is that it's not true. The release isn't until Thursday.

First the good news. Fedora 9 Preview is now out -- woohoo! The bad news? Well since Fedora 9 Preview is out a little late, Red Hat has now pushed back the official release date of Fedora 9 by two weeks. The original release date for Fedora 9 was set for April 29th, the new date is now May 13th.

The future of the standalone operating system is not particularly bright. At least, that's according to Nat Friedman, chief technology and strategy officer for open source at Novell. "The big story here is Linux versus Windows," he said. "I do not believe that Microsoft has shown the interest, time and the will to allow an ISV to embed their operating system and intermediate between Microsoft and the customer."

Talk about FUD. I came across a release this AM titled, "Free Open Source Software Is Costing Vendors $60 Billion," New Standish Group International Study Finds". This 'research' firm claims in its release that they've spent 5 years studying the Open Source market (funny since in the last five years I've never heard of the Standish Group). After all that 'research' they've come to a big conclusion and one that is obviously very debatable.

The Debian GNU / Linux distribution has announced the eighth and final update to the Debian 3.1 Sarge release. Time sure does fly. It seems like just yesterday that I was complaining about the delayed Sarge release (it was actually 2004), and wondering what impact the upstart Ubuntu distribution would have on Debian.

With 4 million routers now enabled to be Linux application servers, the world's greatest networking vendor is the penguin's biggest fan.

Networking goliath Cisco is now opening its Integrated Services Router (ISR)platform to become a Linux-based application server platform. The move could have wide-ranging implications, as Cisco's gear has millions of deployments that now can be leveraged to serve applications directly.

Open source advocates have long pointed to Asterisk's ascendancy as one of the movement's great success stories. But for the founder of the open source PBX (define) solution, Asterisk's success is just the beginning.

Python has not been a language that has been front and center all that much (though it is mature and enterprise ready as I noted in a recent story). Python's position changes today with the official launch of Google's App Engine.

After years in the shadows, the open source Python programming language is becoming increasingly mainstream. There are more users and more tools. Backers of Python now argue that Python is ready for the enterprise. But in a programming world already filled with languages such as Java, .NET, PHP and Ruby competing for share, is Python getting a bite? Its backers think so.

Reuters is now reporting that Sun is the first of the world's major server computer makers to certify that its hardware works with Ubuntu Linux. The only problem with the Reuters report in my personal opinion is that it's not exactly accurate and is somewhat misleading.

There is a new release of Mozilla Weave out this week, offering the promise of improved core synchronization and responsiveness. Mozilla Weave is an open source Mozilla Labs effort that debuted back in December of 2007 as an attempt to make Mozilla a platform play utilizing a Mozilla online services backend to store and synchronize data.