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News from Apr 30, 2009

Open source becomes a force in health care IT, Apr 30, 2009

Open source is picking up steam in enterprise computing, even as the economy peters out. If West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller has his way, open source will soon make its mark on medicine, too, with the lower cost of open source a key impetus behind the move.

Eucalyptus in the cloud: researchers commercialize OSS project, Apr 30, 2009

The researchers behind the open source Eucalyptus project have launched a company to commercialize the technology. They plan to offer services and support to companies that want to use Eucalyptus to build self-hosted elastic computing clouds.

Red Hat plans more hiring after adding 600 employees, Apr 30, 2009

Despite the worst recession in decades, Linux giant Red Hat added 600 employees to its rolls during the 12 months that ended Feb. 28, and the Raleigh company anticipates more hiring going forward, according to a filing Wednesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Novell: Twenty-four Google Summer of Code(TM) Student Projects to Create Code for Go OpenOffice, Mono and openSUSE, Apr 30, 2009

Novell today announced that three of its sponsored open source initiatives are participating in the Google Summer of Code, hosting a total of 24 student projects. The students with accepted projects will be mentored by Novell employees and community contributors with the openSUSE and Mono projects, which have participated in previous Google Summer of Code events, and Go OpenOffice (go-oo.org).

Red Hat, Ingres and Tibco CEOs shine light on Oracle-Sun merger, Apr 30, 2009

In a conference call, the top brass of the two firms suggested that the $7.4bn merger is an attempt to come up with an integrated solution.

GPL: why Eric Raymond is wrong, Apr 30, 2009

Twelve years ago, Bruce Perens, who was then leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project, drafted the Debian free software guidelines as part of the project's social contract.

The Sun ain't gonna shine on OpenOffice any more, Apr 30, 2009

Everyone who has cheerfully been using OpenOffice for the past seven or eight years must face the prospect that the new owners will drop the project.

QOTD: Have You Replaced Windows with Linux?, Apr 30, 2009

Times changes a lot of things, and it definitely changes the computing landscape. These days, there are so many good choices to use--particularly in the Linux space.

Mandriva Linux 2009.1 is released, Apr 30, 2009

Mandrivia has unleashed its Spring 2009.1 release, the latest version of its popular and freedom-based, easy to install and use Linux distribution.

Linux: How much does it not suck?, Apr 30, 2009

Linux does not suck. It only sucks if you have never tried it or are afraid to try an open-source operating system.

Kernel release: 2.6.28.10-rc1, Apr 30, 2009

2.6.28.10-rc1 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.
Files added: 0
Files changed: 105
Files removed: 0

Kernel release: 2.6.30-rc4, Apr 30, 2009

2.6.30-rc4 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.
Files added: 1898
Files changed: 9730
Files removed: 736

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