Red Hat's CEO, Brian Stevens, has in a webcast announced his company's virtualization strategy for 2009.

Novell wants to expand its SUSE Enterprise Linux into security management by acquiring the technology assets of two software companies.

SSL won't come to a rest: the newest attack isn't about encryption or errors in the Secure Sockets Layer protocol, it's about the weakest link in the chain -- the user.

Scheduled for release in October, Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala will come with server cloud computing and a new desktop design.

Steve Ballmer's deal with the Catalonian government is seen as a leverage against their existing Open Source strategy.

The idea of an industry-wide common cryptography standard is certainly welcome. But self-interest usually precedes usability, so two industry consortiums are now vying over which standards to adopt, one on the side of Sun and the other leaning toward IBM/HP. Then there is an additional player in the Trusted Computing Group.

The coming March release of QT Jambi will probably be the last. QT Software will discontinue support for the Java version.

If Google were to use Qt, things would be much simpler and Chrome would have a unified interface under Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. But Google isn't satisfied with Qt.

Linux Magazine Online takes you out for a walk at FOSDEM 2009 in Brussels.

In October 2007 IP Innovation filed a lawsuit against Novell and Red Hat for violation of certain virtual desktop patents. Red Hat is now asking the community for help to invalidate it.