| Highly anticipated open-source releases coming in '09 When big companies release new software, they launch it with lots of hoopla: press tours, technical conferences, free T-shirts. Open-source projects, even the well-known ones, generally release their major new versions with a lot less fanfare. The FOSS (free and open-source software) community is often too busy coding and testing to bother with marketing, even when the new "point release" of the software is really remarkable. 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. Ubuntu 9.04 Beta: Quick Look So far there have been six alpha releases of the forthcoming Ubuntu 9.04, due for final release next month, and late yesterday the one and only beta release was made available for download. From this point forward there's a release candidate in mid-April, before the final release is made on the 23rd. Microsoft turning into an open source company? Microsoft Subnet Blogger Mitchell Ashley questions Microsoft's actions these days. The company is embarking on two new strategies: be the Web platform and cozying up to open source, from Linux right up to and including open source apps. This is the Microsoft equivalent of Apple moving to an Intel hardware platform. ParaScale cloud storage software hits general availability Storage start-up ParaScale is heading into general availability with software that aggregates disk storage on standard Linux servers to create pools of storage that can be used by Web-based services providers and to build private clouds. Novell releases SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Waltham, Mass.-based Novell Inc.'s release of SUSE Linux Enterprise(SLE)11 has a number of enhancements designed to help companies, during dire economic times, to cost-effectively run mission-critical applications in a mixed IT environment, regardless of the hardware or virtual platform, or cloud computing infrastructure. TomTom caves, will pay Microsoft license fees; may force more open source patents Microsoft Subnet reports that GPS navigation device vendor TomTom has agreed to settle its lawsuit with Microsoft by paying Microsoft license fees. Financial terms were not disclosed. The patents at the center of Microsoft's infringement claims involved technologies found in a version of the Linux OS that TomTom's portable devices run on. 10 operating systems the world left behind You're not really supposed to love an operating system. It's like your car's hydraulic system, your digestive system or the global financial system. It's supposed to do its job -- and not get in your way while you're doing yours. Firefox fix due next week after attack is published Online attack code has been released targeting a critical, unpatched flaw in the Firefox browser. Lenovo restructures as emerging market focus grows Lenovo will create developed and emerging market units in the place of its regional business divisions as it moves its focus back to emerging economies, the company said Thursday. MailArchiva: Open Source Email Archiving for Exchange MailArchiva is a great open source solution to help you to deal with email archiving in your organization as well as helping you to make sure you are in compliance if this is important to your organization, says Microsoft Subnet blogger Ron Barrett. Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. | 
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