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• Oracle highlights Solaris Unix plans

  Oracle executives talked up on Thursday the planned Solaris 11 release due in 2011, with the Unix OS upgrade offering advancements in availability, security, and virtualization.

• How to buy a computer preloaded with Ubuntu

  If you've ever paid attention to the market share statistics for desktop operating systems you probably know that Linux is most frequently pegged at about one per cent.

• Linux kernel shows growing mobile influence

  An increasing number of contributions to the open-source Linux kernel are coming from mobile and embedded equipment vendors, according to an annual report about to be released by the Linux Foundation.

• Ubuntu will begin updating daily, report says

  Ubuntu may shift from updating every six months to updating every day, according to a report Tuesday in The Register.

• Attachmate to retain Novell Unix copyrights

  Novell's copyrights for the Unix operating system will remain under Attachmate's control as part of the companies' pending merger, a Novell spokesman said Wednesday.

• Microsoft's hand in Novell deal bodes ill for Linux

  Attachmate may be the primary purchasing party in the Novell acquisition deal announced today, but the involvement of Microsoft means there's a fresh new threat to Linux looming on the horizon.

• Microsoft purchasing 882 Novell patents

  CPTN Holdings LLC, a consortium of technology companies organized by Microsoft, is purchasing 882 Novell patents for US$450 million cash, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing submitted Monday by Novell.

• 12 Ubuntu derivatives you should consider

  It's no secret that Ubuntu 10.10, or Maverick Meerkat, is one of the most user-friendly Linux distributions of all time for business and home users.

• Tiny Linux Kernel patch delivers huge speed boost

  What a difference 233 lines of code can make.

• Oracle releases Solaris 11 Express

  Oracle on Monday released Solaris 11 Express, a version of the Unix operating system that is aimed at developers and also serves as a preview for the upcoming release of Solaris 11 next year.

• Jolicloud may beat Chrome OS to netbook market

  Google's Chrome OS may be ultimately intended to run on cloud-focused netbooks when it comes out, but as of yesterday it looks like a small, startup competitor could beat the search giant to the proverbial punch.

• Linux Mint 10 ‘Julia' is now official

  The Linux Mint team announced today that the final release of version 10 of the free and open source operating system, dubbed "Julia," is now officially available.

• Red Hat releases RHEL 6

  Red Hat on Wednesday released version 6 of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution.

• Ubuntu will adopt Wayland Graphics System

  Hard on the heels of Canonical's controversial decision to use the 3D-enabled Unity interface in its desktop Ubuntu operating system came word late last week that it will also adopt a new graphics system.

• 10 reasons open source is good for business

  With the many business and government organizations that now use open source software such as Linux, it's becoming increasingly clear that price is not the only advantage such software holds. If it were, companies that adopted it during the Great Recession would surely have switched back to the expensive proprietary stuff as soon as conditions began to ease, and that's clearly not the case.