Xandros, provider of easy-to-use Linux alternatives to Windows, announced an immediate solution for the 50 million 'disenfranchised' Windows 98, 98SE and ME customers left without support and security patches. In response to the recent announcement by Xandros to s...

BitRock announced the release of BitRock InstallBuilder 3.8. The development tool turns the application packaging, distribution and deployment process of multiplatform applications into a fast, easy and cost effective task for independent software vendors and cu...

Neoware has expanded its relationship with IBM and will provide so-called Thin Consoles that manage IBM's System...

Technalign has announced it is releasing a low-cost system for those individuals and companies that still have older hardware. The product has been named Frontier ASPEN powered by MEPIS Linux. Frontier ASPEN is being released immediately and is in many partners hand...

Altiris is opening its Software Virtualization Solution (SVS) for development, releasing the SVS API in a new SDK. Altiris wants SVS to be the most widely used software virtualization technology.

Sun is using Thumper, its long-expected, recently introduced, seven-inch-tall hybrid combination of dual-core Opteron-based Galaxy servers and storage, as a novel turnkey Data Warehouse Appliance running Solaris 10 and little Greenplum's massively parallel versi...

The rumors were right. AMD will be paying a hefty $5.4 billion for Canadian chipmaker ATI Technologies in a strategic bid to look more like Intel unless, of course, Intel decides to upset the promised merger with a bid of its own. ATI would have to pay AMD a $162...

Magsoft announced the release of Flux Version 9.3. Flux tools are Finite Element Method (FEM) based CAE software developed by Cedrat of Grenoble, France. Flux is used for the analysis and design of electromagnetic and electromechanical devices, applications, and p...

Levanta announced that Third Screen Media, has chosen the Intrepid M appliance to manage its rapidly growing Linux server environment. The company recently implemented Levanta's Intrepid M appliance to greatly simplify the provisioning, configuration and ongoing ...

FSMLabs continued its rapid pace of technology releases with the final technology release of the RTLinuxPro 2 Development Kit (2.2.3). The main application targets for this release include hardware-in-loop (HIL) simulation, telecom and network equipment, enterpris...

Fluendo, provider of GNU/Linux and Unix multimedia solutions, is expanding its offerings with the Elisa Media Center solution. Elisa will be a full-featured Media Center solution targeted at both desktop and embedded systems. Targeted to be used on Home Theater PC...

rPath announced that Digium, original creator of Asterisk is an rBuilder and rPath Linux partner. Powered by the rPath platform, the Asterisk Business Edition, the professional grade version of Asterisk, now has built-in Linux distribution features Digium's cust...

American Arium introduced the LC-500MX21 Linux Development Kit, featuring the Arium LC-500 hardware-assisted debug solution and a test board fitted with the Freescale Semiconductor i.MX21 application development system board. The kit offers developers a fast, easy...

UniPress announced a major upgrade to its popular FootPrints LANsurveyor product. Powered by Neon Software's LANsurveyor 9.6, the latest version of this integrated add-on solution to the FootPrints service desk product line has significant enhancements to furthe...

Scalix Corporation, Linux email, calendaring and integration platform company, announced that it will turn its popular Scalix Community Edition free software product into an open source project. Scalix Community Edition Open Source will consist of the Scalix Serve...

Strategic Test Corp has announced the release of new Linux drivers for kernel 2.6 versions of RedHat, SuSe and Fedora distributions. The kernel 2.4 drivers have also been updated. Linux kernel 2.6 gives increased stability and near to real-time operating system ...

Alereon introduced a Wireless USB Device tool suite designed to help speed the creation of applications and products using Alereon's Wireless USB chipset technology. Components include the evaluation board, as well as driver and application software pre-loaded on a...

PixExcel, based in the United Kingdom released the update 8 of Pie Box Enterprise Linux 3., a Linux distribution that is derived from open source software. This update features numerous security and driver updates and is fully compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux and open source software, announced that mobile Linux platform provider a la Mobile will become an active member in the Labs' Mobile Linux Initiative (MLI). OSDL...

Qlusters, provider of open source data center management and automation software for physical and virtualized environments, announced openQRM plug-in support for the Xen, VMware, QEMU and Linux VServer projects. Each plug-in takes advantage of openQRM's advanced v...

Overland Storage, announced version 3.0 of its REO Protection OS, the data protection software integrated with every REO SERIES disk-based backup and recovery appliance. This latest version also supports a new Linux 2.6 kernel and redesigned I/O subsystem.

Nexvu Technologies, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Capital Growth Systems, announced the general availability of Nexvu Analyzer version 3.0 - its network and application performance monitoring software. 'Version 3.0 is our most scalable, usable and feature-rich rele...

Perhaps due to the participation of Novell, SUSE Linux is one of the most popular and highly rated Linux distributions available today. Indeed, Novell claims over seven thousand installations a day, a breathtaking average of one every twelve seconds. With SUSE's q...

LynuxWorks announced that it has doubled its presence in the Japanese market by adding JEPICO Corporation, a Japanese embedded hardware supplier based in Tokyo, to its distributor network. JEPICO will offer the full LynuxWorks product line, including BlueCat Embed...

Turbolinux, provider of Linux-based solutions, announced the deployment of Turbolinux server operating systems to assist Shanghai Stock Communication (STOCOM) in the development of a reliable, high-quality platform for STOCOM's LinBox v1.0 project. STOCOM launched...

Panda Software is launching Panda DesktopSecure for Linux, a complete security suite for protecting Linux workstations. The new Panda Software solution includes signature-based detection of malicious code, the Genetic Heuristic Engine -a new technology capable of ...

Technalign has started shipments of TaFusion MEPIS Linux Frontier. Frontier is the next generation of TaFusion MEPIS Linux that is Ubuntu based. Version XI is still available from Partners and Technalign directly. The company also announced that they would start d...

Jinglehorse - manufacturer of desktop computers and provider of computer technology services to businesses and consumers- is now offering several Linux distributions with the EcoSystem Duo. The EcoSystem Duo uses as little as 37 watts during normal use and a no mo...

MacroExpressions announced the release of Unimal 2.0a for Win32 and Linux platforms. It helps programmers improve software quality and development process, helps improve code maintainability and helps optimize memory usage in a highly maintainable way.

The editor in chief of ZDNet and VP of editorial at CNET Networks, Dan Farber, took time out from Thanksgiving Day to rebut what he interpreted to be a slight on his journalistic credentials, when in a Linux.SYS-CON.com blog SYS-CON Media's group publisher Jeremy ...

Attensa, developer of RSS software for businesses, introduced the world's first enterprise feed management appliance. The Attensa Feed Server is a Web feed server appliance that can be easily installed behind the firewall to create a secure, scalable, enterprise R...

Wizzard Software announced the release of WizzScribe SI (Speaker Independent) for Linux, significantly expanding WizzScribe's market coverage to include Linux platforms as well as applications where speaker independence is a priority. WizzScribe offerings from Wiz...

The Free Standards Group (FSG) announced Linuxprinting.org, the de facto standard repository for printer drivers on Linux, is merging with the FSG's OpenPrinting workgroup and will be integrated and supported in the Linux Standard Base (LSB). The result will be ea...

Fujitsu Computer Systems unveiled the PRIMEQUEST 500 series servers with Dual-core Intel Itanium 2 processors, providing performance improvements up to 2.5 times that of previous models. The PRIMEQUEST servers are built to meet the highest demands on reliability a...

SageTV released Version 5.0 of its SageTV Media Center for Linux OEM Edition, becoming the first Linux-based personal video recorder (PVR) and music/photo/video media center to offer placeshifting and wireless media extender capabilities The new release is also ...

Turbolinux, provider of Linux-based solutions,announced the Turbolinux operating system will be shipped with the Epson Direct Corp. Endeavor series PC system, Endeavor LX7700. The Endeavor LX7700 model is a Linux model based on desktop PC model Endeavor MT7700. Th...

Tactical Software announced that it has begun shipping TTYredirector, serial port redirector software product that allows Linux-based applications to access hundreds of serial device servers and modem pools offered by over 40 manufacturers worldwide. The new TTY...

The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum announced that Telecom Italia, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) and ZTE are the most recent additions to the consortium of companies with a strategic focus on Linux telephony. In association with its members, the LiPS Foru...

Emerson Network Power announced the availability of MontaVista Carrier Grade Linux for its KatanaQp AdvancedTCA blades and PmPPC7448 ProcessorPMC modules. Emerson will offer MontaVista CGL (version 3.1 or 4.0) bundled with its KatanaQp blades and PmPPC7448 modu...

Novell announced the worldwide availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, the next-generation platform for the open enterprise. SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 from Novell includes SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, providing a secure and reli...