Wall Street analyst tips Red Hat

Shares of open source software firm Red Hat Inc bounced up during last Friday's trading session after analysts forecast a string fourth quarter.

Red Hat stock shares were up 3.5% to $21.69…

Microsoft to face reheated Linux challenge from IBM, HP and Intel

A new Linux cooperative that is expected to be announced Monday could cause refocused competitive pressures for Microsoft Corp., maker of the popular Windows operating system, according to a…

Xfce 4.4.0 Released

After more than two years of development, Xfce 4.4.0 has just been released. Xfce 4.4 features new tools such as the much awaited Thunar file manager as well as several huge improvements of its…

Microsoft and the Open Source community agree on something?

The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, currently investigating personal Internet security, were told this week that the public face real difficulties in reporting internet based…

Oracle Unveils World-Class Management Solution for Unbreakable Linux Users

Furthering its commitment to make Linux better for users, Oracle today introduced Oracle Management Pack for Linux, an enterprise-class, Linux management solution for Oracle Unbreakable Linux…

China making own PCs with own CPU and Linux

China is about to put on sale its own computers running with its own processor and Linux. This news will not bring unalloyed delight to Intel and Microsoft.

Wu Shaogang, a manager from…

New Linux Foundation Launches – Merger of OSDL and FSG

The two leading consortia dedicated to the advancement of Linux – the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and the Free Standards Group (FSG) – announced that they have signed an agreement to merge…

Beryl 0.2.0 - Beta2 Released

Beryl the OpenGL accelerated desktop just released Beryl 0.2.0 Beta2 over the weekend. This release brings a lot of fixes for the problems many people experienced with Beta1.

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UbuntuStudio Announced

Coming this April, Ubuntu Studio aims to be a multimedia editing flavor of Ubuntu for the Linux audio, video, and graphic enthusiast or professional who is already familiar with the Ubuntu-Gnome…

Weekly Wrap-up Jan 19 2007

Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...

- OpenSuSE to rival VISTA

- Open Source software takes on VMware…