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The OpenBSD team earlier this month released version 3.6 of the free operating system, with support for more hardware, updated application software, and bug fixes included. This time around OpenBSD has added support for multi-CPU systems, a number of drivers for new peripheral hardware, and about 200 more applications to the Ports tree. We took the new version for a spin, and liked what we found.

Taking its cue from Linus Torvalds' goal of "total world domination" by Linux, Sun Microsystems works to pave a path away from its declining market share by focusing on the promising platform. But where are the details?

MicroWorld Software Services, developers of anti-virus and content security software, eScan and MailScan, announced today that MailScan for Linux has joined the Novell Ready Program. This status establishes that MicroWorld's products are now compatible with Novell Enterprise Linux. The product was awarded Novell Ready status for SuSE Linux desktop, Enterprise Server 8, 9 and the SuSE Linux Standard server.

Imagine a computer network for small businesses that costs less than half as much as most companies now spend on their desktops and servers, never needs expensive on-site service calls, and always has the latest software and security patches without the business owner even thinking about it. This has been technically feasible with Linux for at least five years, but no one has gone to the trouble of marketing it. I hope someone decides to build and sell a true "plug-and-play" Linux office computer system soon. It would revolutionize the way small businesses buy and use computers.

Next month, Linux server and storage specialist Pogo Linux will become the first server maker to stop messing around and actually deliver an eight-way server based on the Opteron 800 series processors.

Welcome to this year's 45th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Bruce Perens has written an article on software patents in standards and explains how they hinder software development. It seems that the memory consumption problem in SpamAssassin 3 is finally fixed, so the package may be able to migrate into sarge.

Microsoft announced on Tuesday a program that will pay some transition costs for companies that want to move from Novell's NetWare operating system onto servers running Windows.

We're very pleased to announce that Connectiva, Mandrakesoft, Progeny and Turbolinux today announce the creation of a common implementation of the LSB 2.0 which will serve as the base for future products. The project, called "Linux Core Consortium" (LCC), is backed by Linux supporters such as Computer Associates, HP, Novell, Red Hat, Sun, OSDL, and the Free Standards Group.

Mark Angeli is leading the Linux faithful to a new place: Foo. LinuxFoo.org is a community site that provides Linux users with a place to ask advice, share wisdom, rant about flaky software, and chit-chat about the latest distribution release.

This summer I had the pleasure of being the editor for the new O'Reilly book Knoppix Hacks. Though I had futzed with Knoppix before, and even created a customized version of it for an O'Reilly event, I was not a regular user of the live CD.

Not many open source aficionados will realize the impact, but by making Solaris 10 free and capable of operating on any kind of hardware, Sun is making a coup in the server market.

HP claimed today that it will boost mainstream adoption of Linux and open source software after signing a support deal with JBoss designed to help firms migrate from proprietary systems.

Performance Technologies (PT) is shipping a Linux environment and development kit for its intelligent shelf management (ISM) cards for high-availability systems. NexusWare ISM includes a 2.4.x-based kernel designed specifically for PT's CPC7301 intelligent shelf management (ISM) card, along with a software stack and tools.

Microcross has updated its commercially supported GNU toolchains for embedded Linux development. GNU X-Tools 3.40 includes tested, modified, commercially supported toolchains based on stable releases of GNU compilers, linkers, and other tools. It is available for 15 architectures -- optionally with a visual development environment.

Infrastructure software developer Gluecode Software Inc. today released a new Java application development platform that ties a number of open-source components into one integrated system. Gluecode's Joe uses technologies from the Apache Software Foundation's portfolio, including its portal technology, Geronimo application server, Derby database (formerly known as IBM Cloudscape) and Agila business process management engine.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- OK, so Sun Microsystems, which claims to be the second-highest contributor overall in the open source software community (BSD is No. 1), is seriously getting back into the open source mix, thanks to the newly opened Solaris 10. In the past, anybody who had to sign a licensing agreement with Sun involving either Solaris or Java software would certainly not agree with the assessment that Sun was open source anything. Times have changed, and so has Sun. Apparently.

NewsForge had the opportunity to speak with Christophe Ney, executive director of ObjectWeb and Benjamin Mestrallet, CEO, of eXo Platform SARL, yesterday on the eve of today's announcement that eXo Platform has joined the ObjectWeb consortium. The eXo Platform Enterprise Portal, due early next year, fits nicely with the other ObjectWeb offerings.

The LinEx operating system is more than a localized Debian version; it's an essential part of a much bigger project.

Software execution efficiency is a highly coveted characteristic for any application, as it enhances response time, hardware utilization, and scalability, among a wealth of other resource-saving practices. PMD is an open source project designed to inspect Java code and point out inefficient structures such as unused local variables, duplicate import statements, or empty try/catch blocks. PMD gives programmers a preemptive approach to cleaning their code.

Novell Inc. last week began shipping a desktop version of Linux that is designed for business users and comes with a bundled set of open-source applications as well as technical support, training and consulting options.