Avinesh Kumar, an IBM developer has taken a close look at the Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) introduced with kernel 2.6.23, comparing it with other schedulers. In the conclusion to the analysis, Kumar discusses changes in the future kernel 2.6.24 scheduler.

Sun Microsystems is to acquire database manufacturer MySQL at a purchasing price of around US$ 1 billion according to Sun.

Linux distributor Red Hat has released version 8 of the Red Hat Directory Server.

Version 3.0.0 of HTML Purifier, a PHP library for purifying HTML has just been released with numerous new features.

Max Spevack, the leader of the free Fedora distribution project stepped down at the FUDCon and announced Paul Frields as his successor.

Security experts are advising users to update to the latest version of the Web-based Horde groupware, which was released just a few days ago.

The developers of Ubuntu have released the third alpha of Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron", which is planned as a LTS version.

Eagerly anticipated, KDE 4.0.0 was officially released on Friday.

The ODF-XSLT project has released the first public version of its PHP software which processes Open Document Format (ODF) files.

The Opensuse team has just released an update for the port scanner Nmap that signals the end of support for Suse Linux version 10.0.