IBM released its first certified package of open-source software for supercomputers based on Linux. The IBM HPC Open Software Stack is designed to make “clusters” - servers linked together to form a single super-fast system - more productive and easier to manage.

For the first time, IBM and Linux distributors Canonical/Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat will join forces globally with their hardware partners to deliver Microsoft-free personal computing choices with Lotus Notes and Lotus Symphony in the one billion-unit desktop market worldwide by 2009.

The Debian project is pleased to announce the fourth update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename etch).

Openmoko, developer of open mobile computing platform announced that on Friday, July 4, it will open the online store for purchase of the Openmoko Neo FreeRunner, a mobile device that the company says will help to enable ubiquitous computing for the 21st century.

Xandros, the provider of custom OEM Linux solutions, next-generation Linux desktop and server products, and cross-platform Windows-Linux management tools, announced the acquisition of Linspire, developer of the CNR software distribution facility, and the Linspire and Freespire Linux desktop operating systems.

Cognos announced that IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence software is now available, for the first time, for Linux on System z.

Continuing its efforts to advance customer adoption of Linux, HP announced the contribution of its Tru64 UNIX Advanced File System (AdvFS) source code to the open source community.

With the “Softnet PN-IO Linux” software controller from Siemens, it is possible to set up open control solutions on standard PC hardware.

Verizon has joined LiMo Foundation as a core member and will fill the final seat on LiMo’s board of directors. By participating in LiMo, Verizon hopes to help LiMo unify the mobile industry around openness and Linux as the key enablers to lowering development costs.

The Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced the availability of Fedora 9, the latest version of its open source operating system distribution.

A new report from ABI Research “Mobile Linux: Bringing License-Free Operating Systems to Smartphones and Middle-Tier Devices” has found that Linux solutions will be at the center of the drive to bring more content-rich environments to users who currently utilize mid-tier devices.

Linspire developer of CNR.com, a software delivery service for desktop Linux software, and Parallels, maker of desktop virtualization solutions for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, today announced the immediate availability of Parallels’ Workstation 2.2 desktop virtualization solution for immediate download through the CNR.com free software delivery service to desktop Linux users.

The Debian project announced the third update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename etch). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustment to serious problems.

Red Hat offers the first open source SOA platform to help businesses integration applications, services and process to accelerate enterprise transformation

Hydro-energy research organisation Turboinštitut, from Ljubljana, Slovenia, has turned to IBM to deliver the most powerful supercomputer in South East Europe.

NEC Corporation will exhibit the first LiMo-compliant mobile handsets in NEC’s Booth at Mobile World Congress February 11-14 in Barcelona.

NXP Semiconductors and Purple Labs announced the release of a 3G Linux reference feature phone offering video telephony, music playback, high-speed Internet browsing and video streaming at a transfer price below US$100.

Linspire, developer of the commercial Linspire and Freespire community desktop Linux operating systems and CNR.com, a free Linux software delivery service, today officially announced an initiative to offer a custom desktop Linux OS Build Service to partners.

IBM will offer an integrated Open Collaboration Client Solution with support for Ubuntu, a the Linux-based operating system from Canonical. The company also announced a new agreement working with Red Hat targeting small and medium-sized enterprises, and momentum in the Open Collaboration Client Solution powered by SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell that was announced in August 2007. The announcements were made at the opening of Lotusphere in Orlando.

Mandriva and Turbolinux announce a partnership by creating a lab named Manbo-Labs, the result of an agreement between the two companies to share resources and technology to release a common base system on each of Linux distributions.

Linspire, developer of the commercial Linspire and Freespire community desktop Linux operating systems, released its initial usage numbers from the December launch of CNR.com beta, a standardized Web 2.0-based Linux software delivery service for desktop Linux users worldwide.

a la Mobile announced the support of Google Android with the industry’s first demonstration of applications based on the open source Android application framework, running on HTC’s Qtek 9090 advanced smartphone.

OpenMoko, the Linux smartphone developer, announced the Neo FreeRunner, a mass-market version of the Neo 1973 open-source phone.

Red Hat, announced the public beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), a web service that provides resizeable compute capacity in the cloud and changes the economics of computing by allowing customers to pay only for the infrastructure software services and capacity that they actually use.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 virtualization delivers broader server support than proprietary virtualization products, and up to twice the performance. This allows greater server consolidation and eliminates a key obstacle to deploying virtualization more widely. Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers benefit from one of the industry’s largest and fastest-growing set of certified applications.
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