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SYS-CON's Linux News Desk gathers stories, analysis, and information from around the Linux world and synthesizes them into an easy to digest format for IT/IS managers and other business decision-makers.

Montilio And Penguin To Offer New Linux File Server
Montilio and Penguin Computing announced that Penguin Computing will offer Linux server configurations that include Montilio's RapidFile storage-to-LAN gateway on a PCI card for the fastest storage access file server configuration available. These Penguin Computin...
Penguin Unveils Altus Linux Servers With AMD Opteron Processors
Penguin Computing, an AMD Platinum Solution Provider, announced its new Altus 1600 and 2600 servers with up to two of the Next-Generation AMD Opteron processors. Supporting Next-Generation AMD Opteron 2000 Series processors, the new line of Altus Linux servers p...
SYSGO Unveils Industrial Grade Linux
SYSGO, the European vendor of reliable device software, announced the release of ELinOS v4.1, the first Industrial Grade Linux solution. ELinOS v4.1 serves the need for an Industrial Grade Embedded Linux solution in the market: Field proven technology, support for...
Insight Sciences Begins Development Of Linux For Notebook Computers
Insight Sciences, a biomedical imaging technology company, announced it is developing a Linux distribution specifically for the Taiwan-based CLEVO line of notebook computers. The company plans to develop, produce and maintain the distribution under quality manag...
Nequalsone Uses Oracle 10g On Linux To Improve Patient Experience
Nequalsone, a provider of healthcare support and patient feedback tools, is using Oracle 10g on Linux as the foundation for NEOlisten, the company's real-time patient service recovery tool. Oracle 10g software products were selected over competitor offerings based...
Linux EtherBoot Adds Support For ATA-over-Ethernet-Based Storage
Coraid announced that the Open Source EtherBoot project now supports system booting from ATA-over-Ethernet-based (AoE) storage. EtherBoot code can be added to FLASH on a host system's NIC, enabling diskless servers to boot directly from AoE storage connected via E...
Collax Launches Linux Server For SMBs
The Collax Business Server delivers a suite of open source applications for security, networking, and communication to run a small or growing business with no Linux knowledge required. In addition to its line of Linux-based servers - combining best-of-breed openso...
Makau Introduces Linux-Based e-Learning Solution
Makau Corporation, announced its membership in IBM's PartnerWorld for ISV program, and is providing a new e-Learning solution from The Makau Learning Appliance based on Novell's Integrated Stack for Linux (ISL). Available through Novell's business partner channe...
CommX Migrates To Linux
CommX has selected IBM blade server technology running Linux to increase network capacity by 10 times while reducing costs by 25 percent. CommX migrated their BroadSoft VoIP application software from a Sun Sparc platform running Solaris to an IBM Bladecenter platf...
IBM Unveils 'Beyond Linux' Strategy
IBM rolled out its next generation blueprint and roadmap to advance key Linux development priorities and support for open source business models. With the announcement, IBM unveiled eight key open source initiatives beyond Linux, aimed at accelerating the adoption...
SafeNet Introduces Sentinel Hardware Keys For Red Hat Linux
SafeNet announced the release of Sentinel Hardware Keys for Linux platforms, allowing software developers in the Linux community to protect 32-bit software applications from piracy and implement flexible licensing models. Sentinel Hardware Keys are the most wide...
IBM Brings Instant Collaboration To Millions Of Linux Users
IBM announced that IBM Lotus Sametime will provide server and desktop support for Linux. Lotus Sametime support for Linux gives customers the opportunity to fully integrate the industry's leading enterprise real-time collaboration software with the cost savings an...
LinuxWorld SF: MySQL And RealPlayer Certify To The Linux Standard Base
The Free Standards Group (FSG), announced that two of the widely-used applications on Linux -- RealPlayer and the MySQL database -- are certifying to the Linux Standard Base. For the first time, a single RealPlayer or a MySQL package will run on the many LSB-certi...
Lenovo And Novell Unveil Linux-Enabled ThinkPad Mobile Workstation
Lenovo and Novell announced the industry's first Linux-based ThinkPad mobile workstations, which will run Novell's recently released SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 operating system. The workstations are based on Intel Centrino Duo mobile technology. This groun...
LinuxWorld SF: Trolltech Unveils Linux Mobile Development Device
Trolltech announced Qtopia Greenphone, the first open Linux mobile device for application developers. Greenphone enables commercial and open source developers, in-house software developers and handset manufacturers to create, modify and test Linux- based mobile ph...
Openwave And Trolltech Collaborate On Linux-Based Development Platform
Openwave Systems and Trolltech announced an agreement to port Openwave client software onto Trolltech's Qtopia Phone Edition Series 4. The Openwave technologies include the Openwave Mobile Browser, Mercury Edition and Openwave Mobile Integrated Dynamic Application...
SteelEye Unveils Virtual Server Failover And Wide-Area Data Replication For Linux
SteelEye Technology reached another milestone in Linux application and data protection as it announced two new products. The first is LifeKeeper for Linux v6, an update to its award-winning high availability clustering solution. The second is SteelEye Data Replica...
LinuxWorld SF: HP Adds Global Debian Linux Support
HP announced that it has increased Linux distribution support options for customers and expanded its portfolio to include support for Debian Linux. The company also introduced integrated open source middleware offerings for its channel partners. The move complemen...
LinuxWorld SF: Verio Unveils Linux Virtual Private Server
Verio unveiled the development of its award-winning Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosted service running Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4. The offering marks Verio's first time to fully support VPS services in the Linux environment.
Scalix 11 Announced For Enterprise And Open Source Projects
Scalix Corporation announced Scalix 11, a new Linux email, calendaring and messaging platform for the enterprise and open source projects. Scalix 11 is a field-tested, easy-to-administer system enabling deep integrations with legacy environments. New features in...
LinuxWorld San Francisco: BitDefender Demonstrates Linux-based Security Offerings
BitDefender will be showcasing its new family of anti-malware products for mixed Windows and Linux enterprise environments, including BitDefender Mail Protection for Enterprise, Mail Protection for SMB and BitDefender Antivirus Scanner for Unices. As part of the...
Portland Group Delivers PGI CDK Roll For Linux Clusters
The Portland Group announced availability of its PGI Cluster Development Kit(CDK) in a roll configuration compatible with the popular Rocks cluster software distribution technology. The PGI CDK is a turn-key suite of software for building and testing programs desi...
Tradeware Global Standardizes On BusinessObjects XI On Linux
Business Objects announced that Tradeware Global Corp. has standardized on BusinessObjects XI on Linux. The open source BI platform enables Tradeware to reap the benefits of an open architecture, including lower cost, increased scalability, and improved stability.
Novell Renames Community Linux Distribution 'openSUSE'
Novell announced simplified branding to make it even easier for customers to identify the right Linux product for their needs. SUSE Linux, Novell's community Linux distribution, will now be known as 'openSUSE,' echoing the name of the Novell-sponsored open source ...
CDS Bundles Storix's SBAdmin With Linux Routers
Storix announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with Clark Data Systems (CDS), a computer network development, service and support company. CDS will bundle its routers with Storix's System Backup Administrator (SBAdmin) backup and disaster recovery sof...
OSDL Signs Up Xandros To Accelerate Adoption Of Desktop Linux
Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and Xandros, provider of easy-to-use Linux alternatives to Windows desktop and server products, announced that Xandros is joining the Labs to help drive the adoption of desktop Linux. Xandros will participate in OSDL's Desktop L...
Linspire Releases Freespire 1.0 Desktop Linux OS
Linspire announced the availability of Freespire 1.0, a free, Debian-based desktop Linux operating system that optionally combines open source software with legally-licensed proprietary drivers, codecs and applications in its core distribution. Freespire licenses ...
LinuxQuestions Relaunches LQ Bookmarks
LinuxQuestions.org is proud to announce that LQ Bookmarks has been completely redesigned and relaunched. A site for Social Bookmarking, tagging and annotating all things Linux and Open Source, the new site has a unified login with the main LinuxQuestions.org site,...
Levanta Releases New Version Of Intrepid M Linux Management Appliance
Levanta announced the release of version 4.2 of its award-winning Intrepid M Linux management appliance. Version 4.2 of the Intrepid M will open up a wider range of storage environments for Levanta customers, with new built-in support for NetApp and OnStor.
Linux Vendor Technalign And InsynQ Partner To Offer Product Bundle
InsynQ, provider of application hosting services announced that it has reached an agreement with Technalign to bundle MyBooks Professional with the TaFusion Frontier distribution Powered by MEPIS Linux. The Frontier products with MyBooks Pro will be distributed ...
Centeris Simplifies Linux Server Management
Centeris, provider of Linux server management and interoperability software, announced the release of Likewise 2.0. The new version delivers significant updates including new management modules for DNS and firewall management, power-user features including an inte...
GE Fanuc Embedded Systems Unveils Linux Supported CompactPCI SBC
GE Fanuc Embedded Systems announced its new 6U CompactPCI C2K Single Board Computer (SBC). The C2K uses the 1 GHz MPC7447A or 1.4 GHz MPC7448 Freescale processor and extensive I/O ports for improved performance and flexible, rugged functionality. The C2K is availa...
Linux Vendor Omni Releases GroupWise Wireless Email Solution
Omni Technology Solutions, announced the immediate availability of Nokia Series 60 support for Omni Mobile, the company's GroupWise wireless email solution. Omni Mobile for Nokia Series 60 Smart Phones is available through Omni's global reseller channel.
Co-Create Takes On Microsoft In China
Co-Create announced that it has signed a multi-million dollar deal in Beijing, China with Ferosys, Alacos' exclusive AsiaPac distributor, to use the unique Alacos Desktop Migration Agent software, an award-winning automated Windows to Linux desktop and user migr...
Lockheed Martin Selects Linux Powered SGI Altix 4700 Server For F-35 Lightning II
Silicon Graphics announced that Lockheed Martin has selected the SGI Altix 4700 server to serve as the host computing platform for the F-35 'Lightning II' Training Devices. SGI has integrated its renowned scalable shared-memory SGI NUMAflex architecture with blade...
Win4Lin Adds Win4Lin Pro Support To Desktop Linux
Win4Lin, purveyor of desktop and enterprise Windows-on-Linux solutions for business, announced that the company's Win4Lin Pro product is now compatible with Linspire Five-0 and is available, along with the Win4Lin 9x product, immediately in the Linspire CNR Wareho...
Autodesk Unveils Linux Supported Maya 8
Autodesk launched Autodesk Maya 8 software, the newest version of its Academy Award-winning 3D modeling, animation and rendering solution. Maya 8 offers a combination of 64-bit support for Windows and Linux, multithreading and algorithmic optimizations that enable...
ADIC Upgrades Linux-Supported StorNext Data Management Software
Advanced Digital Information Corporation announced upgrades to its StorNext data management software, including security and performance enhancements to its archiving functionality. Key new features in the StorNext 2.8 release make it easier for users to guarantee...
Boeing Selects Wind River Carrier Grade Linux For P-8A MMA System
Wind River Systems announced that Boeing has selected Wind River Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition, a Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) run-time, which includes Wind River Workbench, the company's Eclipse-based development suite, for the P-8A Multi-mission Mar...
Innobase Develops Alternative for MySQL Betas
Solid Information Technology, the proprietary database house that stepped forward three months ago to offer its own mission-critical technology as a replacement for the Innobase storage engine that Oracle poached from MySQL, went into beta with the stuff on T...


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