Red Hat Fedora Core 5 Released, Mar 21, 2006

The bleeding edge of Red Hat's Linux efforts hits a major milestone today with the release of Fedora Core 5, which sports the latest in Linux desktop, server and system applications.

Linux may be struggling to gain a foothold in the primary and secondary education market but one Sydney school is setting itself higher grades - all without Microsoft.

As governments around the world increasingly turn on to open source software, the West Australian government has no choice but to play a leadership role if it doesn't want to be left behind.

The OpenZaurus Project has achieved a new release of its free Linux software environment for Sharp's Linux-based Zaurus PDAs.

You can even run entire operating systems from a thumb drive, provided the host PC supports booting from a USB device. Several variations of Linux will run from a thumb drive, but installing them in most cases requires some knowledge of Linux.

PCLinuxOS (PCLOS) is a nicely-developing, Live-Linux on CD distribution. It is a good desktop Linux, which also can be installed permanently if you like.

Financially strapped Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI), is targeting SAP customers planning to migrate off mainframe platforms with Linux-based servers.

Novell will include its "Beagle" search engine and virtualized server and storage features in SUSE Linux Enterprise 11, one Novell executive said.

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