Linux News Desk

CAD Schroer Group (CSG) announced the latest release of its free personal use version of the powerful MEDUSA4 design automation suite, available for Windows and six different Linux distributions. The industry-proven 2D/3D CAD solution now also includes a Sheet Metal Design module... (more)

The guy who created Gentoo Linux, Daniel Robbins, has offered a solution to the remarkable situation created by the revoking of the Gentoo Foundations's charter several weeks ago: he is offering to return as President. 'I have received permission from my employer to return and se... (more)

Kevin Carmony, recently-resigned CEO for desktop Linux vendor Linspire, unveiled his new venture, Dating DNA, LLC. Dating DNA provides free and open Web Services which bring 1-click compatibility scoring and other sophisticated dating features to Social Networking sites such as M... (more)

Although it has not yet hopped on the server virtualization bandwagon, the New York Stock Exchange - as it builds out the NYSE Hybrid Market trading system that it launched last year - is betting big on Linux. NYSE Euronext CIO Steve Rubinow told a reporter that the NYSE is inves... (more)

Auspice Corporation announced that the Auspice OpsLogice Suite of network service assurance solutions is now available on the Linux operating system. Adding support for Linux in addition to existing support for the Solaris operating system provides MSOs with increased flexibility... (more)

The TuxMobil project covers all aspects concerning Linux on laptops and notebooks. The number of free guides and how-to's has more than doubled in less than three years, and more than 7,000 links to Linux laptop and notebook installation and configuration guides are now listed at... (more)

Dell said Tuesday morning that it would start buying back a gargantuan $10 billion worth of its stock. To no avail. Its price dropped to below where it was in January before Michael Dell returned as CEO, recouping only a little since then. Dell has $15 billion in the bank and gen... (more)

MontaVista Software, Inc announced two new Linux support packages (LSPs) that make MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 5.0 available for the new AMCC PowerPC 405EX and 405EXr processors. In addition to bringing commercial-grade Linux to the AMCC processors, the new MontaVista L... (more)

The Linux Foundation, currently home to Linus Torvalds, has named Ted Ts'o, the Linux filesystem maintainer and very first Linux kernel developer in North America, a Fellow and chief platform strategist. Shifting over from IBM where he led the creation of an enterprise-level real... (more)

How Christmas-y! Nudged, it would appear, by China - well, at least it's doing something - the English-language Korean trade press reports that North and South Korea agreed last week at a conference in China to develop a single version of Linux tentatively called Hana Linux and s... (more)

Rice Technology Solutions (RTS) announced that it has been selected by Canonical Ltd. as an Ubuntu linux solutions partner. Ubuntu  is a Debian based Linux distribution with a stronger focus on usability than other linux releases. Ubuntu is sponsored by Canonical Ltd, owned by S... (more)

Concurrent Computer announced SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10 from Novell is now available through Concurrent. SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10 is the latest version of Novell's enterprise-class, open source real-time operating system. SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10 was... (more)

BSkyB’s in-house creative department has upgraded its Autodesk Flame visual effects systems to the latest version running on Linux-based workstations. It has also invested in the Autodesk Backdraft Conform media management solution and Infiniband high-speed networking. BSky... (more)

ESET announced three new products for Linux and FreeBSD users. The new Gateway, File and Mail products provide SMB and enterprise users with malware protection throughout their Linux infrastructure, without impacting on network performance. ESET Gateway Security for Linix/FreeBSD... (more)

Turbolinux announced it has joined the Interop Vendor Alliance (IVA). The IVA is an industry-wide group sharing the common goal of making technologies work better together with Microsoft systems for customers. With increasing demands for products that support business objectives a... (more)

Canonical announced the availability of the Launchpad Personal Package Archive (PPA) service, a new way for developers to build and publish packages of their code, documentation, artwork, themes and other additions to the Ubuntu environment on desktop, server and now mobile platf... (more)

COMDOM Software announced new partnerships with the two leading providers of Linux based server operating systems, Redhat and Novell. These partnerships demonstrate an advantage of deploying Linux based operating systems on the server infrastructure of large enterprises and ISPs.... (more)

ESET unveiled three new Linux solutions for enterprise and SMB network environments. The new Gateway, File and Mail solutions are built on the company’s ESET NOD32 Antivirus scanning engine and provide Linux users with the highest level of malware protection with little imp... (more)

David Patrick, CEO of Ximian before it was sold to Novell in 2003 and then general manager of Novell's Linux, NetWare and open source operation, has turned up as CEO of Xkoto, a clustered grid-scale database load balancing start-up. Coincidently, the company just got a $7.5 milli... (more)

Novell is closing down its direct sales offices in Israel, Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway and Turkey to focus on 10 larger European countries as part of a yearlong shift to a more indirect approach globally that it signaled last December. Novell says it was largely partner-led in th... (more)