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Linux kernel version 2.6.20, released on Sunday, offers access to a new framework meant to provide a user-friendly, high performance platform for Linux virtualization in the future. The framework, called Kernel-based Virtual Machine, or KVM, is a full virtualization technology for Linux on x86 hardware. It consists of a loadable kernel module named kvm.ko and a userspace component. Both components are open source software.

SCALE 5x, the 2007 Southern California Linux Expo will be held in Los Angeles, CA this weeken On Feb 9-11, 2007. It will include: 50+ seminars, 70+ exhibitors, BoFs, and more. Highlighted speakers will include Chris Dibona, Don Marti, Ted Haeger, Jono Bacon, andothers. Exhibitors include: Dell, IBM, Verio, Redhat, GroundWork Open Source, ReactOS, Haiku OS, and PostgreSQL. One lucky attendee will win a Dual Xeon 1U Rackmount Server from Silicon Mechanics. Two other conference to be held on Friday Feb 9th include:Women In Open Source, andOpen Source Health Care Summit.

Trouble accessing data exported from multiple file servers? Try using open source implementations of autofs and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), with NFS Version 3, to access data under the same global mount point. In this article, study and compare five different methods to create a uniform namespace using autofs.

The long-awaited Amarok 1.4.5 has finally been released. Major changes include an integrated Shoutcast stream directory, the new Magnatune music store re-download manager, support for track labeling, and improved sound quality when using the equalizer with xine engine. Many of the new features are explained in the latest issue of the Amarok Weekly Newsletter.

Information Week has an article entitled: 'How To Tell The Open Source Winners From The Losers' and prominently features Medsphere's OpenVistA® as being 'on the bubble' and some factual errors regarding the troubled software:'...OpenVista was posted on SourceForge on June 6. It wasn't a big surprise; the posting had been promised several times by Medsphere, a company founded to commercialize OpenVista. But things unraveled quickly. Within four months, Medsphere sued co-founder and CTO Steve Shreeve, who was responsible for the posting. In a complaint filed in Superior Court of Orange County, Calif., Medsphere charged that Shreeve and his older brother, Scott, Medsphere's chief medical officer at the time, had breached their fiduciary duty as directors, violated confidentiality agreements, and caused the company to suffer $50 million in damages.

Open News episode 2 hits the net today with stories on 3Com, MySQL, Digium, Sun, Ubuntu, and more...

"In this article we are attempting to take a look through the glasses of the Free Software Foundation in order to understand what drives people involved with it and why does it do what it does."

French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroen gave a major boost to Linux desktop legitimacy with its recent announcement to install 20,000 Novell SUSE Linux desktops and 2,500 SUSE Linux servers into its IT infrastructure over the next several years.

While many Americans were focused on the sports spectacle known as the SuperBowl yesterday, Linus Torvalds was focused on releasing a new Linux kernel. Version 2.6.20 of the kernel includes a bevy of fixes and features, notably the introduction of KVM virtualization to the mainline kernel.

Carrier grade Linux (CGL) provider Wind River has partnered with network equipment provider (NEP) Radisys and high-availability middleware vendor Clovis on a "pre-integrated" ATCA/Linux platform. The platform has already been adopted by Airvana, a telecommunications equipment manufacturer (TEM) serving mobile broadband markets, the companies say.

If incoming mail contains the word"identity" it goes to a mailbox I started in late 2004. It has over 7000 emails in it now. The majority of those are from theIdentity Gang list.The Identity Gang got its name when it first met informally on theDecember 31, 2004 editionofGillmor Gang. I've lost track of how many workshops and meetings and other exercizes in convergence we've had, but the progress continues to be amazing.I just looked atwhat Eric Norlin of IDG wrote here, then atwhat Scott Kveton of JanRain wrote here then at whatKim Cameron of Microsoft wrote here— to pick just three out of countless posts, all connected somehow. You can see the progress in just one month.This observation comes in the midst of thinking about a form of Vendor Relationship Management that has the same initials asCRM, but a different meaning: Creator Relationship Management.I would like to relate to creators in a better, less intermediated way.

I had reviewed O'Reilly's Learning MySQL by Tahaghoghi and Williams for Linux Magazine (published in Europe and known in the U.S. and Canada as Linux Pro Magazine) and was pondering the difference between 'Learning' MySQL and having a 'Cookbook' on the same subject by the same publisher. I suppose it's the difference between learning the basic principles of cooking vs. vastly deepening your repertoire of cooking styles and recipes. To quote from the Linux Magazine review of Learning MySQL, 'The book is primarily written for readers who "don't know much about deploying and using an actual database-management system...".' To quote from the Introduction of MySQL Cookbook, 'This book should be useful for anybody who uses MySQL...The book should appeal to people who do not now use MySQL but would like to'.

Commentary: Blame Jim Finkle at Reuters, I suppose. His story is the one that started this large dung-ball of misinformation rolling around the Internet. You know the one, about Novell losing the right to distribute Linux.

As many of you, have heard about Fedora's presence in FOSDEM2007. We are now announcing another FUDCon in 2007 which will be held there at FOSDEM, Brussels Belgium.

Linux Genuine Advantage™ is an exciting and mandatory new way for you to place your computer under the remote control of an untrusted third party!

[Be sure to check out "Linux Genuine Advantage™ has been cracked by computer hackers!" at the bottom of the page. - TC]

WordPress 2.1 was released a few weeks ago with a host of new features, including the ability to save pages as drafts, improvements for file uploading, import and export features, and performance improvements. Is it time to upgrade or switch to 2.1? While the latest release doesn't really add any killer features to entice users to switch from other blogging software, the new features are worth the upgrade if you're already using WordPress.

This article provides some simple guidance for developers entering the world of Java EE. It's a compiled best-of-the-best list of what are the most important and significant best practices for Java EE.

This article describes how to use the pattern on method signatures to decrease the coupling between components and improve performance. IoC isn't just for components.

Issue number 76 of Fedora Weekly News.

Aging Linux and Unix systems have prompted car rental company Thrifty Inc. to modernize its server platforms and direct investment towards more innovative applications. Thrifty's IT manager Michael Morton said the transformation initiative began about eight months ago when its Red Hat Linux and SCO Unix systems were becoming outdated.