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Linux-ready netbook touted for eight-hour battery life —
Apr. 15, 2010 —
 ZaReason is shipping a Linux-ready, 10-inch netbook that uses the Intel Atom N450 processor and is claimed to offer eight hours of battery life. The ZaReason Teo Netbook offers 2GB of DDR2 RAM, a 160GB hard disk drive, a WVGA display, and 802.11n WiFi, says ZaReason. ...
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Xen hypervisor optimized for new NICs, chips —
Apr. 15, 2010 —
 Xen.org announced release 4.0 of its widely deployed, open source Xen virtualization hypervisor. The Linux-ready Xen 4.0 is touted for its enhanced network card support, performance and scalability gains, memory and security optimizations, fault tolerance features and improved Intel and AMD processor support. ...
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Fedora 13 "Goddard" beta emphasizes automation —
Apr. 14, 2010 —
 The Fedora project released a beta version of Fedora 13 (codenamed "Goddard"). The updated community Linux distribution is touted for features including automatic print-driver installation, the Btrfs filesystem, enhanced 3D driver support, revamped Python bindings, and the Zarafa groupware package, says the project. ...
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OSCON show announces sessions and keynotes —
Apr. 07, 2010 —
 The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) has posted sessions and keynotes for its annual conference. Scheduled for July 19-23, at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, OSCON features keynotes including Google's Chris DiBona, Facebook's David Recordon, Canonical's Simon Wardley, and the GNOME Foundation's Stormy Peters (pictured). ...
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MeeGo code released for netbooks and smartphones —
Apr. 01, 2010 —
 The MeeGo community has "opened the repositories" on early code for the netbook-oriented Linux platform, which combines Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo. Images are available for the MeeGo distribution infrastructure and OS base "from the Linux kernel to the OS infrastructure up to the middleware layer." ...
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IBM, Canonical to sell Ubuntu-ready netbooks in Africa —
Mar. 26, 2010 —
 IBM, Canonical, and Simmtronics announced they will market an Intel Atom-based netbook in emerging markets. The Simmbook will be preloaded with the cloud-oriented IBM Client for Smart Work Linux distro, based on Ubuntu Netbook Remix, and will first be made available in Africa for just $190. ...
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Red Hat soars with fat profits, design wins —
Mar. 26, 2010 —
 Red Hat announced fourth-quarter financial results showing a 15 percent increase in revenues year-over-year. In other news, the company announced new JBOSS and SOA tools, tipped a collaboration with IBM on cloud technology, and revealed customer wins with the Symbian Foundation and the Tokyo Stock Exchange. ...
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Lucid Lynx beta boasts social networking features —
Mar. 22, 2010 —
 The Ubuntu project released its first beta of Ubuntu 10.04 ("Lucid Lynx"), offering two new themes, social-networking tools, cloud-related enhancements, faster boot-times, and an updated Firefox browser with Yahoo search as default. Meanwhile, an oddball icon placement in one theme has Ubuntu users up in arms. ...
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All-in-one PC has dual-core Atom —
Mar. 19, 2010 —
 Shuttle announced a compact, all-in-one PC featuring a 15.6-inch touchscreen and a dual-core Intel Atom D510 available with SUSE Linux. The X50V2 includes a 1366 x 768 display, webcam, 4-in-1 card reader, a 2.5-inch hard drive bay, and up to 4GB of RAM, says the company. ...
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Fedora 13 alpha arrives amid controversy —
Mar. 12, 2010 —
The Fedora project has released an alpha version of Fedora 13 featuring automatic print-driver installation, the Btrfs filesystem, enhanced 3D driver support, and much more. Meanwhile, on LWN.net, Jonathan Corbet reports on the growing controversy in the Fedora community over the quantity and quality of updates. ...
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Linux summit dissects MeeGo —
Mar. 12, 2010 —
 The Linux Foundation has announced sessions for its Collaboration Summit, scheduled for Apr. 14-16 at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco. This year's event features a full-day workgroup on MeeGo, as well as Linux sessions ranging from cloud computing to desktop distros to open source compliance. ...
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Nettop taps Ion 2 GPU —
Mar. 11, 2010 —
 Shuttle announced a Barebone XS35 nettop equipped with a dual-core Intel Atom D510, and Nvidia Ion 2 graphics. Meanwhile NewEgg is selling a Linux-equipped Eee Box B202 nettop for only $189, and the Eee PC-oriented Eeebuntu distro is moving from Ubuntu to Debian with EB 4.0. ...
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Debian live CD distro rev'd —
Mar. 05, 2010 —
 The Elive team has released a long-awaited upgrade to its Debian-based, live CD-ready distro. The New Stable version of Elive 2.0, code-named Topaz, is equipped with the Enlightenment E17 desktop environment, but now offers an alternative Compaz desktop, plus new autolaunchers, system-recovery tools, and "configurators." ...
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OpenSUSE 11.3 hits second milestone, features KDE 4.4 desktop —
Feb. 23, 2010 —
 The Novell-sponsored OpenSUSE project released Milestone 2 of its OpenSUSE 11.3, featuring Linux 2.6.33, GNOME 2.3 beta, and a new network security stack. OpenSUSE 11.3 Milestone 2 also debuts the new KDE 4.4 desktop, which adds a netbook interface, plus new tabbing and social networking features. ...
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Ubuntu Netbook Remix enlightens ARM support —
Feb. 19, 2010 —
 Canonical is developing a 2D ARM interface based on Enlightenment Foundation Libraries for the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 ("Lucid Lynx") version of Ubuntu Netbook Remix. In other Ubuntu news, Ubuntu Live CDs in Lucid Lynx will boot 33 percent faster, and The Linux Box will market Ubuntu. ...
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RHEL 5.5 advances KVM, WiFi —
Feb. 11, 2010 —
 Red Hat released the first beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.5, providing memory allocation enhancements to the KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) hypervisor. RHEL 5.5 also introduces new storage and WiFi drivers, and supports new AMD, IBM, and Intel processors, says the company.
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Hot-patch service boasts reboot-free server updates —
Feb. 11, 2010 —
 Ksplice has launched a subscription service that updates Linux servers without rebooting. Based on an MIT-bred utility that has been considered for merging into the Linux mainline kernel, Ksplice Uptrack is claimed to reduce costly downtime, while also speeding installation of security patches and other upgrades. ...
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Linux Mint 8 achieves final KDE version —
Feb. 09, 2010 —
 The Linux Mint team announced the final release of Linux Mint 8 "Helena" KDE Community Edition. Based on Kubuntu 9.10, Linux 2.6.31, KDE 4.3.4 and Xorg 7.4, Linux Mint 8 KDE CE boasts improved OEM installation, as well as "ignore updates" and multiple software selection features. ...
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LinuxCon opens for registration, paper submission —
Feb. 03, 2010 —
The Linux Foundation announced a call for papers and open registration for its second annual LinuxCon conference, scheduled for August 10-12 in Boston. The conference will feature several mini-summits prior to the show on topics including security and KVM, says the nonprofit Linux advocacy organization. ...
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Open source nettop designed from survey requests —
Jan. 27, 2010 —
 The Open-PC project, which developed an open source Linux PC based on community survey requests, says its KDE-flavored nettop will ship next month. The Open-PC is equipped with a 1.6GHz dual-core Atom N330 with 3GB RAM, but the nettop's high $500 price has stirred some controversy. ...
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Free training webinars feature Linux luminaries —
Jan. 26, 2010 —
 The Linux Foundation announced a free webinar series on topics ranging from Linux administration to performance tuning. The Linux Training Webinar Series will launch with a webinar on Linux contributions on Mar. 1 by Jon Corbet, while future sessions feature leading Linux kernel maintainers and developers. ...
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Second Lucid Lynx alpha said to offer 15-second start-ups —
Jan. 22, 2010 —
 The second alpha of Ubuntu 10.06 boasts 15-second boot-time, says an industry report. Meanwhile, the Ubuntu project posted a controversial survey about which proprietary apps might be considered for inclusion with the distro, and Canonical announced a support plan for IBM's Ubuntu/Lotus "Smart Work" cloud distribution. ...
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Ubuntu books span Koala and Lynx distros —
Jan. 22, 2010 —
 Sams Publishing has published a 2010 version of its book Ubuntu Unleashed for Karmic Koala and Lucid Lynx releases. The publisher also launched an Ubuntu Linux Starter Kit combination book and boxed distribution, and has updated A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming. ...
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Chrome OS gets faster Zero build —
Jan. 20, 2010 —
 Chromium hacker Hexxeh has released a faster, USB-bootable build of Google's Chrome OS called Chromium OS Zero. Meanwhile, ArsTechnica interviewed Google's Engineering Director for Chrome OS, Matthew Papakipos on the past and future of Chrome OS. ...
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Linux job site launches —
Jan. 15, 2010 —
 The Linux Foundation (LF) has launched a Linux Jobs Board on Linux.com, with special services available from the JobThread Network. Meanwhile, the LF is accepting requests for invitations for its exclusive, invitation-only Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit on Apr. 14-16 in San Francisco at the Hotel Kabuki. ...
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