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Managing power locally can be as simple as flipping a switch, but what happens when you've got hundreds of sites geographically dispersed? It's a problem that open source vendor Opengear is now tackling with a new release of its hardware console server software.

Amazon is now making new source code available for its Amazon Kindle. Basically what it represents is Amazon's responsibility to make the GPL licensed source code that is used in the Kindle available to others. That's part of the GPL license and Amazon is doing its part. Digging into the code that Amazon is now making available provides some really interesting insight into the underlying structure of the Kindle. For one, Kindle (at least the DX) is using a modified Linux 2.6.22 kernel

Open source doesn't mean open to all. New open source-powered commercial products from Red Hat are set to roll out -- but for now, it's only for an invited few. The actual products that Red Hat is making available to its private beta customers include the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers and the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Desktops.

In November of 2006, Microsoft rocked the Linux world by signing a landmark patent and interoperability agreement with Novell. According to the two partners, it's an agreement that today, two and half years later is still paying off, even during the current recession. Heystee said that in just the past six months, the two companies have signed more than 100 new customers, which is double the rate in the first two years of their relationship.

Fastboot's inclusion in the kernel is one of the release's key elements, providing a mechanism for faster startup times within the mainline kernel itself. According to Red Hat, there is a difference between the aims and process of the new mainline Linux kernel's fastboot -- which was contributed to the community by Intel -- and the approach to faster startups taken in Fedora 11. "They're solving a different set of problems," Fedora kernel maintainer Dave Jones told InternetNews.com. "The Fedora work has been almost entirely done by improving init scripts in userspace, and by making applications more intelligent about the I/O they are doing."

Alongside the new operating system release, Fedora is showing off its new community portal. The hope is that the new site will help to grow both the Fedora Linux distribution as well as the number of people that contribute. "It's all Web-based, so it will cut down on the number of software applications that a contributor will have to learn in order to communicate with the Fedora Project," Frields said. The Community will be able to connect people live in a way where we can connect people that will encourage more mentorship."

Vyatta, the feisty open source startup that is trying to take router market share from Cisco and Juniper - is getting an injection of $10 million today. The $10 million is Vyatta's 'C' round of financing and is led by Citrix Systems.

From the 'membership has its privileges' files: If you've ever wanted your very own Linux.com email address (and didn't work for SourceForge/OSDN) - you too can now get one. All you need to do is join the Linux Foundation.

Sun is giving opensolaris a major overhaul in the new 2009.06 release, the new release includes enhanced networking, virtualization and storage capabilities for the open source operating system. "This is really a transparent development step toward the next generation of the Solaris platform," Dan Roberts, director of product management datacenter software marketing at Sun, told InternetNews.com. "Initially, OpenSolaris had a developer-and desktop-centric flavor, but in this release we've moved from just desktop and developer to a datacenter-capable mission-critical operating system."

From the 'better late than never' files: Fedora Linux 11 was originally scheduled to be out this week (May 26th), but that got bumped to June 2nd and now is being pushed back another week to June 9th. Fedora staffer Jesse Keating noted that there was a late bug discovered in anaconda storage that is triggering the push back.

Novell is managing to grow its Linux business despite a difficult economy, but is it profitable? The answer, according to both Novell's CEO and its CFO, is not yet. "We have invested heavily in our Linux business to gain market share and acquire new customers," Novell CFO Dana Russell said on the company's quarterly conference call last night. "While the business is not yet profitable, we are making steady progress and plan for it to be break-even no later than 12 to 18 months from today."

Some Interop session have more drama than others. A session with open source routing vendor Vyatta squaring off against giants Cisco and Juniper, provided both drama and humor as the trio aggressively debated the merits of their respective technologies. For Dave Roberts, VP strategy and marketing at Vyatta, the session was all about calling out the proprietary vendors on price and choice. Both Cisco and Juniper responded in kind during often heated exchanges that had the audience laughing and gasping at the same time.

Linux has gained in popularity among server and device vendors as being a good general purpose operating system. When it comes to device vendors which often have different chip architectures and needs than a general purpose operating system provides, there is a need for customization which adds time and expense to a project. Embedded Linux vendor MontaVista is now taking aim at that issue by splitting apart its Linux distribution into what it refers to as Market Specific Distributions (MSDs).

From the 'yet another Linux news site?' files: Linux.com has been relaunched under the direction of the Linux Foundation. The Linux.com site was acquired by the Linux Foundation earlier this year from SourceForge for an an undisclosed sum. The goal of the site is supposed to be a community hub that lets the Linux community participate and contribute their knowledge, in the pursuit of being a Linux guru.

The number of 1 percent on the desktop however does not show the full Linux picture. On servers, and especially on web servers Linux is somewhere around 45 percent

Apparently it's not just enough to have an open source Java framework, you need to be able to manage and monitor it, too. As result of the move, Hyperic's system management technologies will be integrated into SpringSource's Java portfolio, providing what will be a full stack that can be used for development, deployment and management of Java applications. "By merging, we see an opportunity to accelerate the software lifecycle across both the development part of the lifecycle and into operations," Peter Cooper-Ellis, senior vice president of engineering and product management at SpringSource, told InternetNews.com.

Zend Framework 1.8 expands the PHP framework to work with Amazon's EC2 cloud computing service. Zend Framework has also added new rapid application development (RAD) features to accelerate PHP development. A new module in Zend Framework for RAD called Zend_application further expedites PHP development. Matt Weier O'Phinney, Zend Framework's project lead. explained to InternetNews.com that Zend_application is around bootstrapping apps

There is money in the cloud. Just ask open source startup Eucalyptus which today announced it received $5.5 million in Series A round of venture financing. Eucalyptus is an open source cloud infrastructure project originally developed as a research effort at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). It is also the key project behind the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) that is part of the recent Jaunty Jackalope launch.

Linux vendor Red Hat is ramping up for its next community Linux release as Fedora 11, codenamed "Leonidas" hits its preview milestone release today -- showing off the future of Linux technologies. "We need to continue to keep our eyes on the prize," Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields said. "To me, that is making sure that Fedora is at the forefront of innovation and making sure we're delivering the future first to home consumers and to business users. We are showing them the technology that they will want to invest in for the future."

On the server, Ubuntu is now ramping its efforts too, which is an area where Mark Shuttleworth also sees a place where Ubuntu can exceed what Debian does. "We see Debian as the system administrators choice," Shuttleworth said . "And we see Ubuntu as bringing a level of corporate identity and backing to that platform which makes it acceptable and palatable in a large scale organizational environment."