After 70% of the people who wrote into its newfangled IdeaStorm suggestion box said they would use a Dell with Linux, Dell said Wednesday that it will start offering Linux pre-installed on select desktops and notebooks. It hasn't said yet what machines or what Lin...

Novell is going into the thin client business with a server-based version of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and an image-creation toolkit that resellers can configure, sort of like a poor man's Citrix or Sun Ray. A California school district put its 2,000 machines ...

Virtual Bridges announced the release of a major upgrade to its Win4Lin Pro product. Win4Lin Pro Desktop allows Linux users to run Windows applications from the security of the Linux desktop. Win4Lin Virtual Desktop Server is the enterprise/SMB product for deliver...

Altiris announced the addition of new Linux1 patch and virtual server management capabilities to help secure and manage heterogeneous server environments. Altiris also announced updates to integrated deployment, patch and monitoring capabilities for Dell servers.

XenSource, Inc., the leader in infrastructure virtualization solutions based on the open source Xen(TM) hypervisor, today announced a comprehensive family of server virtualization products supported and maintained by the company leading the evolution of Xen. Desig...

Novell announced the industry's first enterprise Linux-based virtualization solution built on Xen, optimized for Intel Virtualization Technology. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 from Novell running on Dual-Core Intel Xeon platforms will provide customers with a ...

Sun Microsystems has outlined its three-pronged approach to virtualization: harnessing commodity technologies, delivering Sun's own advanced products and technologies, and leveraging Sun's global expertise in providing systems and software. Sun will continue to ...

a new suite of next generation,cross-platform and cross-service, workflow-driven and rules-based,management products and integration frameworks. The suite enables datacenter managers and system administrators, with typical Windowsadministration skills, to config...

The OpenVZ project announced its operating system-level server virtualization software technology is incorporated into Debian GNU/Linux giving users full access to OpenVZ software, which helps increase server utilization rates. At the same time, the OpenVZ proje...

Nationwide, a diversified insurance and financial services organization, announced it has completed deployment of a virtualization solution running SUSE Linux from Novell on IBM mainframe computers to help the company reduce the total cost of ownership of its IT environment.

the Oracle Management Pack for Linux provides Oracle Unbreakable Linux support program customers with comprehensive Linux server lifecycle management, helping to reduce the complexity and cost of managing their Linux operating system environments.

Penguin Computing, an AMD Platinum Solution Provider, has announced the Altus 600 server, specifically designed for the needs of high performance computing (HPC).

MultiGen-Paradigm, Inc., providing real-time, 3D visual simulation solutions, and Concurrent, a provider of time-critical Linux operating systems and integrated computer solutions for mission-critical applications, has jointly announced that Lockheed Martin has ...

The Free Software Foundation is recommending gNewSense and Ututo as beginners' Linux distributions. Ubuntu user and member Ryan Lortie has written an Open Letter to the FSF raising some big points dealing with the goals of the FSF and how to accomplish them. We bring you the full text.

Six months into his $350 million Red Hat adventure and JBoss head Marc Fleury, middleware's outspoken bad boy, is on three-months a-heck-of-a- time-to-take-it paternity leave - with the usual speculation that he's not coming back - after he mouthed off to eWeek abo...

Volanté Systems offers a new Linux POS (point of sale) solution for the hospitality and gaming industries, where the demand for complete reliability and security is critical. Their creative approach to wireless mobile computing makes Volanté the perfect wireless s...

The YHGfL network, which runs on a Linux environment to help the not-for-profit organization keep costs down, opted for CRYPTOCard?s KT-1 two-factor authentication keychain token solution because it was cheaper than other products and could run on open source software.

A survey of technology decision-makers shows very strong customer support for the recent agreement between Microsoft and Novell designed to improve interoperability between Windows Server(R) and SUSE Linux Enterprise. Nearly all respondents agree with improving ...

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and other Linux kernel contributors announced the availability of major Linux serviceability improvements including new kdump and SystemTap features. These enhancements are available in the latest releases of Linux distributions.

The Itanium Solutions Alliance announced a $100,000 sponsorship of the Gelato Federation, a global technical community dedicated to the advancement of Linux on Intel Itanium architecture. The partnership will strengthen the community of support for Itanium 2-bas...

FSMLabs released carrier grade real-time operating system support for the new ATCA telecommunications reference design from AMD. FSMLabs' RTLinux for the AMD Opteron processor-based 64-bit Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (AdvancedTCA) platform from Pinna...

MontaVista Software, embedded Linux provider announced a technology preview of its 5.0 products which are scheduled for release in the first half of 2007. The interactive preview will be available to all of MontaVista?s current subscription customers. The technolo...

IBM announced that IBM System p5 servers, running the Linux OS, have achieved industry-leading benchmark results that beat HP servers in important measurements of business and scientific performance. The IBM System p5 servers using the Linux OS surpassed HP Inte...

Availigent, provider of Application Service Management software for Linux-based, dynamic data centers, has joined the Open Grid Forum to accelerate the development of a common set of standards for grid computing. Grid computing is an emerging computing model that ...

Linux-based server solutions provider Collax announced expanded bandwidth management of the Collax Security Gateway. The UTM solution in Version 4.0.10 prioritizes and guarantees bandwidths in Virtual Private Networks; giving Voice-over-IP (VoIP), and other crit...

Zi Corporation, provider of intelligent interface solutions, has announced its software is now integrated with Qtopia Greenphone. The Greenphone is the first Linux mobile device tool for application developers. Zi software has been pre-integrated on Qtopia to enab...

Taiwanese systems integrator AR Infotek has built an 'entry-level' 1U rackmount server appliance platform around an AMD x86-compatible embedded processor. The Teak 3258 is based on a passively cooled Geode LX-800 processor, and features soldered-down RAM, and two LAN bypass ports.

Enea plans to market a small-footprint TCP/IP stack add-on for OSEck, its compact RTOS (real-time operating system) for DSPs (digital signal processors). The 'DSPNet' stack should enable DSP farms running OSEck to connect via gigabit Ethernet to heterogenous, dist...

Open-Xchange Inc. has said that it has signed a partnership and support agreement with MySQL AB. This partnership enables Open-Xchange to embed the MySQL database into its leading open source collaboration server. Open-Xchange will add MySQL support to its Linux b...

Taiwanese pop superstar Jay Chou launched Motorola's thin, Linux-powered Rokr E6 multimedia phone, at the ITU Telecom World tradeshow this week in Hong Kong. The fourth-generation music phone is just over half an inch thick (14mm), and features a 2-megapixel cam...

Trolltech has plans to speed up the use of Linux-based cellphones by offering developers a Linux-based OS and applications suitable for mobile phones. Greensuite, built on the Qtopia embedded Linux platform for mobile phones, is a set of applications similar to ...

SafeNet is shipping an 'integrated IPSec VPN platform' software said to support VPN connections from next-generation mobile devices. QuickSec 4.1 Server and Client Toolkits helps developers incorporate the most current IPSec security standards, such as MobIKE, i...

Mandriva launches Mandriva Flash, the first Mandriva Linux Live USB key. Hit the right key with Mandriva Flash. Bringing its long experience with Live CDs, Mandriva aims to offer the best performing live system. All you have to do is plug in the USB key, turn the ...

AMD has announced the transition to 65nm process technology, beginning with the immediate availability of energy-efficient AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core desktop processors. The move to 65nm process technology enables AMD to produce more processors on a 300mm wafer, f...

Technalign, Inc. has announced it has released its new Pioneer Linux operating system to the community. The first release is the 32-bit version to be followed immediately by the 64-Bit Version. The community edition includes many features found previously in Front...

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), vendor neutral Linux certification and Novell announced a series of initiatives to promote Linux professional credentials and the global adoption of open source software. In particular, LPI welcomed the cooperation of Novell...

Intel has announced a new ATCA blade server for the telecommunications industry with Carrier Grade Linux support. The Intel NetStructure MPCBL0050 Single Board Computer is the first AdvancedTCA (ATCA) blade server based on the Intel Core microarchitecture. Also un...

Bigfoot Networks announced last week the first Flexible Network Architecture (FNA.TM) application for the Killer Network Interface Card (NIC) to help make online gaming safer and more secure. The new FNApp, called the FNA Firewall, is an embedded Linux-based firew...

3Dlabs is demonstrating 3D GPS navigation applications on its newly unveiled media processor for mobile devices, at the Navigation USA tradeshow this week in San Jose, Calif. The demo uses GPS application software from NordNav, along with digital maps and content from Tele Atlas.

PMC-Sierra is sampling a family of Linux-based residential gateway designs that support next-generation broadband network protocols such as ADSL2+, VDSL2, EPON (Ethernet passive optical networking), and fiber-to-the-home/curb. The designs are based on the company'...