Operating Systems News and Articles

US security vendor Trusted Computer Solutions (TCS) recently presented a solution for automating server hardening.

Three new branches in Opensuse's build service provide various OpenOffice packages: stable, unstable and extras. This replaces the previous OpenOffice build service.

IBM has now released the new version of the Lotus Notes Groupware and Collaboration Suite for Linux servers. Besides numerous enhancements and a new, Java-based architecture, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 now provides a Linux distribution-based platform for the server.

Red Hat Linux has just released a beta version of its Red Hat Developer Studio. The developer environment, which is based on Eclipse, is targeted at facilitating the development of new applications for Red Hat solutions, and migrating existing applications.

US corp. XenSource announces version 4 of its XenEnterprise virtualization software for Monday.

In the court case concerning Unix rights, it looks very much as if SCO has just lost the decisive round: in the considered opinion of Utah District Court, Novell is the owner of the code. The court refutes SCO's claims of ownership.

Database manufactuer Oracle has released various software projects under the GPL, including ports of Yast and the Btrfs filesystem.

The new kernel release includes bugfixes and security updates.

The Opensuse project has just released the first beta version of the new 10.3 distribution.

Mandriva "Cassini" includes kernel 2.6.22 and new versions of various applications, and it supports a whole bunch of new hardware. Compiz Fusion replaces Beryl.