Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 1 Due In July, Jun 02, 2006

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will enter beta testing in late July and ship in December, executives said Wednesday.

It's official: All mentions of Novell must now, once again, be preceded by the adjective "beleaguered."

silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK sat down with Red Hat chief executive Matthew Szulik at the company's user summit in Nashville, Tennessee, for a brief discussion on how he intends to keep his company at the cutting edge and battle the biggest threats to its future success

It was like watching Darth Vader call a truce with the Jedi rebels, or Wile E. Coyote finally deciding to leave the Road Runner in peace.

Shares of Red Hat soared Thursday, as technology investors fled from Novell, the Linux vendor's major rival.

The State of Lower Saxony has begun switching the PCs its tax authorities use from Solaris x86 to Linux. According to a press release, 12,000 computers are affected. Since the end of April, all tax authorities have been involved in migration. By the end of September 2006, the desktop systems are all to be running on Linux except for telecommuters and servers.

One Laptop Per Child founder Nicholas Negroponte used the Wall Street Journal's D Conference in Southern California Wednesday to show off a prototype of the much-anticipated $100 laptop for emerging markets. However, he acknowledged that the device will initially be priced around $130 to $140 USD.

Mozilla released an additional "security and stability" update to its Thunderbird email client, v1.5.0.4, on June 1. Thunderbird 1.0.8 is still serving as the final stable release in the Thunderbird 1.0.x product line, with the upgraded version 1.5.0 released in conjunction with Firefox 1.5 last November.

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