Stephan Kulow has announced the availability of the third beta release of openSUSE 11.0: "The openSUSE team is proud to announce the third beta release of openSUSE 11.0. Over 700 bugs were fixed since beta 2, more new artwork was added and several new package versions were includes.....

Michael K. Johnson has announced the release of rPath Linux 2.0, a highly customisable appliance operating system featuring the Conary package management utility: "rPath is pleased to announce that rPath Linux 2 is now available and recommended for general use as an appliance platform. What's new? rPath Linux....

MEPIS has announced the release of MEPIS antiX 7.2, a lightweight, community variant of MEPIS Linux designed for older computers: "MEPIS has announced the release of antiX 7.2, 'Vetëvendosje.' Built using the MEPIS Linux 7.0 core including the MEPIS 2.6.22 kernel and utilities, along with selected additions from....

The One Laptop Per Child has finally sent out an official communication on its agreement with Microsoft, which involves the creation of a dual-boot version of the XO laptop. "OLPC is substantially increasing its engineering resources and all software development continues entirely on GNU/Linux. We will continue to work to make Sugar on Linux the best possible platform for education and to invest in our expanding Linux deployments in Peru, Uruguay, Mexico and elsewhere. No OLPC resources are going to porting Sugar to Microsoft Windows..."

Medical companies feared an end to forum shopping and more examination of claims would burden both their efforts to patent inventions and gain redress when patents were violated. So they torpedoed this half-a-loaf solution for technology.

Earlier we challenged Moore's Law with OpenOffice.org. Today we have a three-way match. In the first corner, we have heavyweight Microsoft Office; in the second, undefeated champion Moore's Law; in... [[ Visit OOoNinja.com for the full article ]]

Sometimes I want to declare victory and go home. Of course, that's usually an admission of defeat, but I really think that with news like Verizon Embraces Linux, that the penetration of Open Source into every sector of computer-using society (which would be ... everything) is inevitable. We've started the snowball down the hill, and there's no stopping it. Not that we would want to! But neither can the foes of Open Source stop it either.

Adobe Labs has announced a beta release of Flash Player 10. "Adobe® Flash® Player 10, code-named "Astro," introduces new expressive features and visual performance improvements that allow interactive designers and developers to build the richest and most immersive Web experiences. These new capabilities also empower the community to extend Flash Player and to take creativity and interactivity to a new level. This public prerelease is an opportunity for developers and consumers to test and provide early feedback to Adobe on new features, enhancements, and compatibility with previously authored content." See the release notes for more information.

When Sun went open source, Sun had to change. We continue to watch this change with fascination, knowing that without dramatic changes in management attitudes, all the way down the line, Sun can't survive. The same lesson applies to content.

Fabio Erculiani has announced the third beta release of Sabayon Linux 3.5: "Sabayon Linux x86/x86-64 3.5 Loop 3 (beta release). Distribution features and changes since beta 2: boot time takes from 15 to 25 seconds less, thanks to Gentoo OpenRC and Baselayout-2, combined with our boot optimizations; improved....

InformationWeek examines the use of Red Hat Linux by the New York Stock Exchange. "Linux has been known to be in use at several New York financial services firms, but few have stepped up to the podium to testify on the value of their implementations. As a result of mergers and acquisitions, the New York Stock Exchange has migrated over the last few years from HP-UX to IBM AIX to Sun Solaris to Linux. NYSE Group CIO Steve Rubinow said the conversion to Linux followed the acquisition of the Euronext exchange in 2007. Unlike some trading companies that suggest Linux is running their secondary systems, Rubinow emphasized that Linux is running the NYSE's mission-critical trading systems."

Fedora 7 has updated blender (multiple vulnerabilities), libid3tag (infinite loop), libvorbis (multiple vulnerabilities), licq (multiple vulnerabilities), perl-imager (buffer overflow) and rdesktop (multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora 8 has updated kernel (multiple vulnerabilities), blender (multiple vulnerabilities), libvorbis (multiple vulnerabilities), licq (denial of service), rdesktop (multiple vulnerabilities) and libid3tag (infinite loop). Fedora 9 has updated rdesktop (multiple vulnerabilities), kernel (multiple vulnerabilities), clamav (multiple vulnerabilities) and libvorbis (multiple vulnerabilities). Gentoo has updated openoffice.org (multiple vulnerabilities). rPath has updated kernel (multiple vulnerabilities). Ubuntu has updated openvpn (regression fix for USN-612-3).

The 2.6.25.4 stable kernel update is available. This one contains a fairly long list of fixes, one of which is security-related.

geek.com mentions the inclusion of the fast-booting Splashtop distribution on Asus motherboards. "DeviceVM, the makers of Splashtop, just made a big announcement though. Their technology will no longer be restricted to the top-shelf motherboards and will see a much wider release. At first it will be featured on Asus’ P5Q (high-efficiency design, Intel P45 chipset) family of motherboards, starting with the P5Q Deluxe, P5Q-WS, P5Q3 Deluxe, and P5Q-E. Later Splashtop will be featured on all the company’s motherboards, over a million units a month."

geek.com mentions the inclusion of the fast-booting Splashtop distribution on Asus motherboards. "DeviceVM, the makers of Splashtop, just made a big announcement though. Their technology will no longer be restricted to the top-shelf motherboards and will see a much wider release. At first it will be featured on Asus’ P5Q (high-efficiency design, Intel P45 chipset) family of motherboards, starting with the P5Q Deluxe, P5Q-WS, P5Q3 Deluxe, and P5Q-E. Later Splashtop will be featured on all the company’s motherboards, over a million units a month."

CrunchGear reports that Verizon has joined the LiMo Foundation. "Verizon has signed up as the final member on the board of directors of the LiMo Foundation, a group founded by Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic, Samsung, and Vodafone “to deliver an open and globally consistent software platform based upon Mobile Linux for use by the whole industry to catalyze next-generation mobile consumer experiences.”"