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HP has put together what it calls the "first ever" mission-critical multi-level security (MLS) services for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) - or any other Linux operating system for that matter. Multi-level refers to stepped levels of security clearance. Options include: long-... (more)

The Nigerian government recently chose the Intel Classmate PC and Mandriva for an educational project, selecting it in spite of a competitive offer by Microsoft. But now it seems the Nigerian government is replacing Linux by Windows on the Classmate PC, although they paid for the... (more)

In the run-up to its numbers Thursday there was chatter on Wall Street about Rackable maybe being an acquisition target. CNBC linked it to IBM. Such rumors have been in the air on and off since Rackable caved under competitive pressure. Levanta Raises $8m Levanta, the old Linuxca... (more)

Microsoft has enticed Turbolinux into one of those "we-won't-sue-your-users" IP license like Novell, Linspire and Xandros before it. The assurances, based on Microsoft's claims that Linux and open source software violate 253 Microsoft patents, are limited to users of the Turbolin... (more)

SCO Group asked for approval from Judge Gross of the bankruptcy court last week to sell off Unix to the highest bidder, which curently would mean York Capital Management, a financial firm. If SCO does receive $36 million, Novell and IBM (and perhaps others) will certainly be hopi... (more)

SCO has gotten a $16 million bid from York Capital for its Unix business. Coupled with the $10 million line of credit York is ready to provide, it's money enough to keep SCO's litigation against Novell and IBM going and to underwrite its budding mobile interests, the company says... (more)

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Linux leader Red Hat posted its fiscal second-quarter results after the market closed Tuesday and said that it earned $18.2 million, or nine cents a share, no Microsoft but up 64% year-over-year, on revenues of $127.3 million, up 28% year-over-year and up 7% quarter-over-quarter.... (more)

'We have put everything into this latest commercial release to make it our most complete offering to date,' said Larry Kettler, President and CEO of Linspire, Inc., as Linspire yesterday announced the immediate availability of Linspire 6.0 - the latest commercial release of the d... (more)

Novell's free community source code, openSUSE, moved to rev 10.3 Thursday. The widgetry includes a Linux-Windows dual-boot configuration, an improved user interface, enhanced multimedia support and Microsoft Office file compatibility with the latest OpenOffice 2.3 software. Novel... (more)

HP says it's going to stop hiding its light under a bushel and advertise the fact that it upgrades its 20-year-old Unix operating system roughly every six months - and has done so for the last three years. It's so taken with the idea that it's even going to start giving the things ... (more)

SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards program, widely considered to be the most prestigious award program in the software industry, is a community-driven process in which the products participating in the program are nominated by the industry's vendors, customers, and users, as well a... (more)

Scalix, a Linux e-mail, calendaring and messaging company, has released Scalix 11.2, with new features to support hosted multi-tenant environments, the latest Linux servers, and enhanced Microsoft Outlook facilities for mobile devices. Scalix 11.2 allows application service provi... (more)

Concurrent’s NightStar LX debugging and analysis toolkit is now available for two additional Linux distributions – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and openSUSE 10.2 from Novell. NightStar is an integrated Qt-based GUI tool set for developing and tuning time-critical 32-bit... (more)

"Chapter 11 reorganization provides the company with an opportunity to protect its assets during this time while focusing on building our future plans," said Darl McBride (pictured), president and CEO of Lindon, Utah-based SCO Group in a statement accompanying the company's volun... (more)

Author Scott Dunn claims that Microsoft is installing updated software to its Windows operating system even when users have disabled the auto-installation of patches. However 'There is nothing harmful, as far as we can tell, about the files that Microsoft is downloading,' says Br... (more)

An Illinois man,  the 12th defendant to be convicted in Operation Safehaven, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for participating in an organized online software distribution conspiracy, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Kevin... (more)

Dell reported its fiscal Q2 results Thursday, a week after it confessed that its books were manipulated to meet projections, but Wall Street had to settle for a dry press release. There was no conference call to tease out color and won't be until Dell files its missing financial ... (more)

Novell's losses, as they say, narrowed in the July quarter and it did better than Wall Street expected. It posted its results Wednesday for its third fiscal quarter and said it lost only $3 million, a penny a share, as opposed to last year when it was $17 million, or a nickel a s... (more)

Video-on-demand and audio-on-demand are expected on many airlines nowadays, so it is no surprise that the version of KrisWorld, Singapore Airlines' in-flight entertainment system, that is being installed in the Airbus A380s and Boeing 787 Dreamliners that the company has on order... (more)