Available Now: Fedora 10 Re-Spins, Feb 21, 2009

The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the first Re-Spin DVDs for the Fedora 10 Linux distribution.

Google Android is based on Linux and was originally developed for mobile phones. It’s finding it difficult to gain traction because of the success of Apple’s iPhone. Developers are heavily favoring the iPhone for their applications. The netbook market could be Android’s cup of tea.

For the first time in recent memory, Microsoft has a real operating system competitor for PCs. And Vista is not up to the challenge because they wants to sell it for full price and it’s too resource intensive for low powered netbooks . So Microsoft is relying on its two year outdated OS, Windows XP to take on Linux.

Armada group and ALT Linux company are happy to release School Server distribution, based on ALT Linux OfficeServer technological base and targeted at schools and other educational institutions.

In most current Linux distributions if you plug in a piece of removable media, anything ranging from a USB memory stick to a removable hard drive to a memory card, an icon pops up on the desktop and/or a file manager window opens. The same thing happens if you insert a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM into a drive.

Either Novell or Red Hat, or perhaps both, will be announcing next week that they'll be shifting their server virtualization offerings from Xen to XenServer.

Being worked on as part of Mandriva's next Linux distribution update is a technology they are referring to as Speedboot.

The OpenSUSE project, a group that develops a Linux distribution that then feeds into Novell's SUSE Linux, has been hit recently by the layoffs at Novell.

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