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The founders of the popular Debian variant, working with Canonical, have established an organization to support the distribution.

The new Levanta Intrepid M acts as hub for provisioning Linux servers without the need to load the operating system or applications directly onto each new server.

Fujitsu Limited and Novell today announced an agreement to deliver new Linux technology and support to their customers. As part of the agreement, Fujitsu will offer support services for Novell's SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server, which will soon be available worldwide on Fujitsu mission-critical PRIMEQUEST and PRIMERGY servers. As a result, customers gain a powerful new Linux solution for their high-performance server needs, backed by two of the leading vendors in the Linux market.

X86 is no longer the top architecture for embedded Linux devices, according to LinuxDevices.com's

The company seems to be even more determined to support the open source community, and it has announced yesterday that it will donate $5 million in a 2 year program in which the students will get e-business diplomas. With these, they will be able to apply for jobs, such as: web developers, software developers, consultants in e-business problems or business application developers.

Mark Mitchell announced the availability of GCC 4.0.1, officially released on July 7'th[sic].

A critical flaw in a compression format widely used in Linux and Unix can give hackers a way into machines, security experts say.

The question at hand is not whether Red Hat's version of Linux is superior to that of its competitors. The marketplace will make that determination and we can keep score via Red Hat's financial performance each quarter. However, suppose you want to do more than just keep score. Suppose you want to be proactive and tackle the question...should you invest in Red Hat, given its current share price, most recent performance, and projections going forward?

Below is the press release sent off to the wires announcing the creation of a new foundation by Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical to help support Ubuntu and employ core Ubuntu developers over the long term and to help distinguish the commercial support and certification programs of Canonical from the truly community-based nature of much of Ubuntu's work.

Linuxlookup.com is report a story on sources close to Mandriva, Progeny and Turbolinux say the trio of companies will be announcing a new enterprise Linux distribution based on Debian Linux at the LinuxWorld event in San Francisco in August. This new enterprise distribution, which may include other companies as well, will be built on the foundation of the Debian 3.1 "Sarge" Linux distribution.

Students who participate in the two-year programs will earn certificates in e-business, which will qualify them to get jobs as Web developers, software developers, e-business solution advisers and business application developers.

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LG Electronics has signed an agreement with PalmSource to license Palm OS worldwide. The deal gives LG the right to develop and market smartphones based on Palm OS, and could make LG the first vendor to ship Linux mobile phones capable of running Palm OS applications.

Thirty-three students bagged the prestigious Red Hat Scholarships Awards 2004-2005, titled 'the lord of the code'— an education initiative designed to encourage open source software developers.

FSMLabs has brought its RTLinux to ARM processor-based platforms for real-time handheld and wireless applications. RTLinuxPro for ARM will initially support ARM9 cores, and target mobile phones and other handheld devices, SOHO wireless and wireline networking devices, and portable instruments for the medical and industrial markets.

It will come as no surprise to many that the notion of open source is not just for software. I recently spoke with Bob Waldie, CEO of Opengear, about his efforts to apply the open source model to hardware.

JBoss founder Marc Fleury explains how his hot startup makes profits from its free application-server software

In this SearchEnterpriseLinux.com interview, Trolltech co-founder and president Eirik Chambe-Eng talks about the newest update to the Qt application framework, Trolltech's dual licensing model and the progress that open source is making in the mobile device business and elsewhere.

Although Linux has made dramatic inroads as a kinder, simpler alternative to enterprise UNIX, nobody has managed to give Microsoft a run for its money in the small business market. That's the contention of Net Integration Technologies Inc.

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