Red Hat plots re-org to deal with JBoss woes, Sep 25, 2007

Red Hat is suffering from JBoss reflux, according to a pair of prominent open source software watchers.

Security experts have discovered TIFF-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities in OpenOffice.org that could allow attackers to remotely execute code on Linux, Windows or Apple Mac-based computers.

Power.org has announced a new Linux development kit and reference implementation for a dual-processor PowerPC chip.

Late last month, hardware vendor HP announced plans to offer desktop computers in Australia with Red Hat Linux, OpenOffice.org, and Firefox installed. Now the company has confirmed that it is expanding this program to other parts of the world.

2.6.22.8 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.

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In August, Darl McBride, The SCO Group Inc.’s president and CEO, declared it “one of the more exciting times” ever for the software vendor. But by last week, the excitement had taken on a whole new dimension.

NOVELL SUSE has released an alpha level video driver for ATI Radeon R5xx/R6xx boards, it says on its website.

Qumranet's Solid ICE product moves desktop users' Linux or Microsoft Windows installs onto virtual machines in the data center, allowing the users to run their applications and OS of choice from thin clients or from Windows or Linux PC clients.

GNU/Linux offers a bewildering variety of flavors -- or distributions, as they're called. To a newcomer's eye, many of these seem virtually identical to each other.

The organisation behind the project has launched the "give one, get one" scheme that will allow US residents to purchase two laptops for $399

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