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.

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

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.

The Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT) will be installing Suse Linux Enterprise on 30,000 desktops and 1880 servers at schools in the southern Indian state.

Chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo has announced that it will be cooperating with Novell for various models of its Thinkpad business laptop series with Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 pre-installed.

Kevin Carmony has quit his position as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with software vendor Linspire.

Red Hat Global Desktop, which was developed for use in developing countries, will not be ready for release in August as planned. A new release date has not been published as yet.

Sun will be closing its fiscal year 2007 (ending June 30) with a net profit of US$ 473 m compared to losses of US$ 864 m in the previous year.

Sun Microsystems has released the first few components of Solaris Cluster Express 7/07 as Open Source.