Virgin America migrates to Red Hat Linux, Aug 18, 2007

New US airline Virgin America has migrated to Red Hat Linux to host its website.

The Debian project is pleased to announce the first update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename etch).

[Christopher Helwig] claims that VMware uses a "badly hacked 2.4 kernel with a big binary blob hooked into it", giving a derived work of the Linux kernel that’s not legally redistributable.

Desktop operating systems numbers, even when gathered by top research companies, such as IDG and Gartner, are often a bit fuzzy. When it comes to uncommon desktop operating systems, like Linux, the numbers often amount to little more than an educated guess. Now, a new open-source program, statix, promises to give accurate data on how many Linux desktops are actually in use.

The SCO boogeyman has now been exposed to be a straw scarecrow with no real substance.

MEPIS founder Warren Woodford today launched "the first official beta" of the upcoming v7.0 release of SimplyMEPIS Linux. According to Woodford, "version 6.9.60beta1" is based on a Debian Etch core combined with up-to-date user applications that are recompiled by MEPIS from upstream Debian and Ubuntu sources.

A one month, world-wide celebration of GNOME's tenth anniversary begins this week, culminating in mid-September with Software Freedom Day and the release of GNOME 2.20.

SCO and Novell have jointly filed their Status Report, in which they answer the judge's question as to what they believe is the effect of his August 10th Memorandum Decision and Order. What's left for the trial? They've talked it over, and they don't agree.

PureMobile sent us in the brand new Motorola handset, second generation RAZR: the Linux-based V8. One of the most sleek and most-wanted phones in the market, and we take it for a serious spin.

The desktop Linux market got a big boost earlier this month at LinuxWorld, where Lenovo unveiled plans to soon begin selling ThinkPads preloaded with Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. The deal makes Novell the second major vendor to support Linux on its consumer PCs, following the trail Dell blazed in May with its decision to offer machines loaded with Ubuntu Linux.

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