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• Open source router project administers Lithium

  The CloudRouter Project, a months-old effort to open source cloud routing, is announcing first shipment of OpenDaylight's new "Lithium" SDN controller.

• How to choose the right Linux distro

  Unlike most other desktop and server operating systems, Linux comes in a wide variety of flavors, each based on a common core of the Linux kernel and various GNU user space utilities. If you're running Linux servers -- or Linux desktops, for that matter -- you should understand the important differences and be discerning about which flavor of Linux is best suited to any given situation. This article will help you do just that. 

• Fuduntu Linux to shut down, new distro to follow

  The team in charge of maintaining and developing Fuduntu, a Linux-based operating system designed as a hybrid of Fedora and Ubuntu, voted Sunday to close down the project.

• Fedora, openSUSE ditch MySQL, in a major database shake-up

  Two major open-source projects, Fedora and openSUSE, are planning to ditch the venerable Oracle MySQL database framework and adopt MariaDB instead.

• Fedora 15 released, first with GNOME 3

  The Red Hat-backed Fedora project has released version 15 today and is the first major Linux distribution to include GNOME 3 as the default desktop environment.

• Fedora 14 release heads for the cloud

  The Red Hat-backed Fedora Linux operating system has reached version 14 which marks the beginning of concurrent releases for Amazon’s EC2 cloud.

• Fedora Linux 13 released

  Fedora, the Red Hat-backed community Linux distribution, has announced the availability of version 13.

• Fedora 13 beta looks to streamline Linux

  The Red Hat-backed Fedora Linux distribution is preparing its version 13 release with a new beta that aims to simplify the user experience through more automation.

• Fedora Linux 12 arrives, ups multimedia support

  Fedora, the Linux-based operating system backed by Red Hat, has released version 12 with a view to improving the multimedia and graphics experience on the desktop.

• Fedora 11 adds virtualization, software management tools

  The Fedora Project on Tuesday released version 11 of its Linux open source operating system, adding expanded hardware support, new software management and improved virtualization.

• Grand ambitions for Linux

  Like a fervent preacher appearing before his flock, Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin emphasized benefits and potential for the Linux platform Thursday during an industry conference that also featured an update on mobile Linux efforts.

• Fedora 11 beta posted with new security, developer features

  The Fedora Project released a beta of the next version of its free Linux OS with new security, desktop and developer features that provide a glimpse of the direction Red Hat could take with its enterprise Linux distribution.

• Fedora 10 out, packed with improvements

  The Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Project on Tuesday released Fedora 10, the latest version of the free Linux-based operating system, with a wide range of improvements in areas such as virtualization management, networking, boot time and security.

• Red Hat admits breach of its servers, Fedora

  Red Hat confirmed Friday that hackers compromised infrastructure servers belonging to the company and the Fedora Project, including systems used to sign Fedora packages.