Mandriva Shows Off 3D Linux Graphics, Opens Benelux Unit, Sep 05, 2007

Commercial Linux distributor Mandriva may not be as big as Novell or Red Hat, but the Franco-American company does its own share of innovation in the Linux space.

The Tile64 chip is not based on any existing processor cores and their associated instruction sets, but rather is a new core developed from the ground up to take advantage of mesh networking on each core to create a large pool of compute resources that can be dedicated to running a single instance of Linux and its applications or carved up on the fly into virtual Linux images, each isolated from other virtualized slices.

The open source openSUSE development project behind Novell's commercial SUSE Linux distributions has its second birthday this month, and Novell is celebrating by touting its improved build service for openSUSE and by shipping the first beta of openSUSE 10.3.

Commercial Linux distributor rPath, which has a variant of Linux and a build system for creating and deploying software appliances based on Linux, last week said that it has closed its second round of venture capital funding.

You knew that any peace between Windows and Linux couldn't last very long.

A few weeks ago, supercomputer maker Cray said that the next quarter or two might be a little bumpy, but that it was pretty confident that it would make its numbers for the year. And, apparently, with good reason. Yesterday, the company announced that it had landed a whopping $200 million deal to build an Opteron-based parallel supercomputer that runs a hyped-up version of Linux for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The OpenVZ virtualization project will today announce that one of the key goodies that has been shipping in the commercialized Virtuozzo virtualization tool for Linux and Windows will be made available to the open source OpenVZ community.

As promised, the Scyld Software unit of Penguin Computing has begin [sic] shipping its latest release of the Beowulf clustering software that its founders created for the Linux operating system.