released for both the desktop and the server, bringing quite some changes with it, cinludin a new installer and major updates in the package management. Downloads are available.

Companies spent $21 billion in 2007 on the Linux server platform, in hardware, software and services, said IDC. And that amount is expected to grow to $49 billion in 2011. And software expenses were at $10 billion, which is still a tiny part of the global software market, evaluated at $242 billion.

Cisco announced at its partner summit that it is opening up its Integrated Services Routers and Wide Area Application Services platforms to third party applications. This platform called Application eXtension Platform is built on Linux. Hardware modules and daughter boards are part of the offering.

Texas Instruments joined the LiMo foundation, an industry consortium dedicated to creating a "truly open, hardware-independent, Linux-based operating system for mobile devices". Texas Instruments is joining other industry heavy-weights on the LiMO Foundations' members list, such as founding members Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Panasonic, Samsung, Vodafone, but also Access, McAfee, LG, AMD, ARM, Ericsson, Amsung SDS and others.

Ubuntu, the growing Debian-based Linux distribution, is included by Sun Microsystems in its push for the SMB market (besides Windows and Solaris).

Google has contracted Codeweavers to make Adobe Photoshop CS and CS2 run better on GNU/Linux systems.

Google is already using Wine for Picasa on Linux, and contributed several patches to the project.

As seen on The 451 Group

After switching to OpenOffice in 2005 and to Mozilla Firefox and Thuderbird in 2006, the french Gendarmerie is switching to Ubuntu. The goal is to have the 70000 PCs moved to Ubuntu within 5 years.

As seen on Linuxfr.

This paper, published by Microsoft, explains how to use Linux to recover data from a computer on which Windows refuses to start.

Montavista released version 5 of their Carrier Grade Linux, based on the 2.6.21 Linux kernel an integrating the GCC 4.2 compiler. It features real-time application patching, meaning a patch can be applied on a running system, without any need to reboot, and Microstate Accounting, which is intended to provide more accurate reporting of CPU utilization.

From Internetnews.com.

Version 8 of the Fedora linux distribution is available, and a notable feature is the possibility to completely re-brand the distribution, such that a company or individual could base its own distribution on Fedora, without any visible reference to Fedora itself.

Other notable features is the tickless kernel (following Ubuntu's steps) and much better support for laptops.