IGEL Technology announced its latest Linux firmware upgrade enhancing the broadest and most powerful range of thin clients on the market. The firmware delivers enhanced security through smartcard authentication of RDP sessions with the inclusion of the new Winconn...

Wind River announced that the LiMo Foundation has selected Wind River's commercial Linux technology as the foundation for its Common Integration Environment (CIE). The CIE solution, including Wind River's build and configuration system with layers, mobile-optimize...

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 Met...

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 employe...

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 Networki...

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 t...

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 incre...

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 a...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ent...

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 ...

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 ...

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 networki...

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 f...

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 bu...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 p...

The company describes the offering as 'an important step in combating the perception that taking Linux security to the next level is a long and complicated process.' See, this security stuff really is complicated and people need all the help they can get or else t...

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 t...

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.

There's an earlier agreement between the two companies involving Turbo with the Open XML format and the use of the Windows Media Format. Under the new deal, Turbolinux desktops will include Live Search. According to Turbolinux CEO Yano Koichi, 'When strong Microso...

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

SCO has gotten a $16 million bid from York Capital for its Unix business. Coupled with the $10M 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 ...

Red Hat is looking for middleware partners but says that JBoss requires an 'integrated' consultative pitch - rather than a product approach - to higher-ups in the enterprise, which translates into a longer selling cycle that Red Hat claims will mean bigger deals. ...

'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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 applicati...

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...

'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, president and CEO of Lindon, Utah-based SCO Group in a statement accompanying the company'...

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 downl...

An Illinois man 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 J. O'Connor for the District of Connecticut announced yesterday.

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 mi...

Novell has now invoiced a total of $105 million since it cut its controversial deal with Microsoft in November, roughly 44% of the $240 million called for in the five-year pact. They are still 'ramping their relationship in Asia-Pacific,' CEO Ron Hovsepian said. H...

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 comp...