Following Microsoft's recent sale of 22 patents, Red Hat has accused Redmond of implementing a classic FUD campaign against open source software.

The new version of the Red Hat Satellite server expands functionality, including in the areas of client management and the API.

An Alpha version of the new Fedora, codenamed Constantine and scheduled for release in November, is now available for download.

The embedded webserver Appweb is available in version 3.0. The new release improves performance, introduces a server-side JavaScript framework and runs on more operating systems than ever before.

Market researcher IDC predicts that Linux will continue steady growth over the next five years, reaching into the billions of dollars in 2012.

In order for Foresight Linux to follow development trends more quickly, Michael Johnson (the founder of rPath and former head of Fedora) has proposed switching from rPath Linux to Fedora.

Instead of 24 months and 3 versions, Novell will in future only supply 2 updates in 18 months for openSUSE.

Verona is about to become famous for more than just Romeo and Juliet and opera: the university of the romantic Italian city is migrating 4000 of its desktops to Linux and open source.