Fedora 10 regains Linux fans, Feb 25, 2009

In 2007, Fedora, Red Hat's community Linux distribution, hit an all-time low. Users were leaving it behind in favor of Ubuntu and openSUSE. Two years later though, Paul Frields, Fedora project leader, declared that there has been "a major up-tick in Fedora involvement over the last 6 months.

Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer had some interesting things to say yesterday about which companies Microsoft sees as its competitors in the client operating system space. You'd think Apple was their number one competitor - and you'd be wrong. Microsoft sees two other competitors as their primary adversaries: piracy and Linux.

Commercial release of Unison Server™ and Unison Desktop™ for Ubuntu will challenge Microsoft Exchange and unified communications franchises with more powerful Linux alternative.

Last week Red Hat announced a virtualisation pact with Microsoft and this week Red Hat announced an entire lineup of open source virtualisation tools.

Will the UK government really embrace open source and open standards?

The UK government is getting serious about using open source as a building block in systems development. Yesterday its top IT policy-making body, the CIO Council, published a 10 point action plan that frees central and local government departments to use open source systems where possible.

Do you want to give your kids a good open source start in life? Then maybe you should be introducing them to Qimo, an Ubuntu-based desktop designed for younger users.

Linux certainly has established itself as a prominent server OS these days, pushing Unix into the background. But the open source OS shares the stage with commercial software giant Microsoft, which remains a dominant player with Windows Server

Red Hat introduces a family of virtualisation products -- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

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