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Xen 3.1, XenEnterprise and RHEL

Last week, XenSource released Xen 3.1 (formerly 3.0.5) to the community, offering significant new features and capabilities. There are a number of enhancements, but...

Mark Shuttleworth on Feisty’s ‘killer feature’

Phoronix has a nice interview up today with Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth, the millionaire backer of Ubuntu.

Phoronix: Among the many new features in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn are network roaming improvements...

Fedora 7 goes live with virtualization, community updates

Fedora 7 went live today and I...

Dell puts Ubuntu on its main page

Apparently Dell did not bury their new Ubuntu hardware 1,000 pages deep, as many Linux conspiracy theorists had feared would be the case. Dell's front page:

Official Ubuntu on Dell page launches

I think people may have been holding their breath over this Dell and Ubuntu thing, so please take a deep breath now and stop killing yourself over it -- Dell is now *officially* offering Ubuntu desktops and laptops.

Samba 3.0.25a Available for Download

Just a quick Samba update to mark my return from the beaches of North Carolina:

• Major bug fixes included in Samba 3.0.25a are:
• Missing supplementary Unix group membership when using "force group".
• Premature expiration of domain user passwords when using a Samba domain...

Red Hat, SUSE, CentOS? Tough choices for open source fans

Usually, very practical factors determine product choices for IT managers. When it comes to Linux and open source products, however, emotions -- particularly conscience and loyalty -- battle with reason. While writing about

Why Novell fan left NetWare, SUSE behind

Leaving Novell, despite years of loyalty, for Red Hat Linux At Red Hat Summit last week, I talked to a Novell NetWare diehard whose relationship with and love for Novell died, well, hard. This is...

Microsoft’s patent FUD –> target Red Hat?

Comments made today by LinuxToday editor Brian Proffit on his blog The Hoosier Penguin resonate with what IP attorney John Rabena told me yesterday in our interview, "

Samba 3.025 available for download

Major features included in the 3.0.25 code base include:

• Significant improvements in the winbind off-line logon support.
• Support for secure DDNS updates as part of the 'net ads join' process.
• Rewritten IdMap interface which allows...