AMD announces its participation in OpenJDK Project “Sumatra” in collaboration with Oracle and other members of the OpenJDK community to help bring heterogeneous computing capabilities to Java for server and cloud environments.

VMware Workstation 9, the latest version of VMware's personal virtualization software, now delivers Windows 8 support, a new web UI, and OpenGL support for Linux.

The free vSphere Hypervisor 5.0 lets companies enter into professional virtualization without the overhead of a commercial solution. If you decide you need additional enhancements later, you can always upgrade to enhanced VMware solutions.

More and more Windows applications run on Linux thanks to Wine. If you spend a little time on configuration and troubleshooting, you won’t be stuck in Windows – even with applications that no one dreamed would run on Linux.

If Wine has thrown you into the impenetrable depths of operating system arcana, you might try CrossOver, a commercial application that contributes to the Wine project.

Nesting of hypervisors, known as a nested virtualization, makes it possible to set up a complete virtualization scenario with a data center, storage, and high-availability functions on a laptop. In this article, we show you how, with Linux iSCSI and free VMware trial versions.

The Fedora Project announces the availability of Fedora 17, the latest version of its free open source operating system distribution.

The latest version of Rocks cluster distribution – an open source toolkit for real and virtual clusters – has been released.