How UCSB Grad Students Put Cloud Computing Power into Ubuntu, Jul 23, 2009

A National Science Foundation grant project developed largely by graduate students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has resulted in Eucalyptus Systems, a three-month-old startup which has produced new open-source cloud infrastructure software that is a key component in Ubuntu 9.04 and its upcoming 9.10 edition.

Microsoft gave rival Red Hat a taste of the real IP world on July 22nd, 2009, arguing that making contributions to open source projects while ensuring that intellectual property rights were respected by rivals were in no way business strategies that excluded one another.

In what looks to be an unprecedented and generous move, Microsoft announced on July 20 that it is providing 20,000 lines of code for the Linux kernel in the sum of three drivers. This is the first time Microsoft has sought to place code in the official Linux kernel, which makes this a pretty big deal. Or does it?

It seems as if Linux gamers are indeed really excited for having new games on Linux, well, "really excited" may still be an understatement.

2.6.31-rc4 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.

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