Fedora 6 to strengthen virtualisation features with Xen 3.0.3, Sep 13, 2006

Roger Klorese, product director at XenSource, the company behind the open-source Xen software project, told IT Week, “We decided to synchronise the release of 3.0.3 with the Fedora Core 6 schedule and hence push it back... It now has several of the features that were originally slated for 3.0.4.”

Open source developers released a new edition of the Gnome Partition Editor (GParted) earlier this month. Though it is based on Linux, updates to the bootable versions mean people without Linux skills can now use them.

Fault tolerant server specialist Stratus will begin offering full support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) running on its latest generation of server hardware from Monday 19 June.

At its user event in Nashville last week, open-source giant Red Hat wooed developers by unveiling a web-based collaboration portal and a software project to help firms automatically test server configurations before deployment.

Server virtualisation specialist VMware has announced that the next version of its mid-range GSX Server virtualisation product will be offered free of charge and will be named VMware Server. The news was welcomed by users.

Product activation has been driving students and others on shoestring budgets to Linux, and this is a real problem for Microsoft. After all, Linux is a great environment for software developers.

The long-running legal actions between Unix vendor SCO and IBM over rights to Unix code may soon be over, if only because SCO is running out of money to pursue its claims.