Red Hat has increased Linux version 5.5 compatibility and is providing new packages.

Red Hat came out with its own virtualization product at the end of 2009 and is now driving development of its Enterprise Virtualization for Servers.

Developer Og Maciel is working on a virtual appliance for Django developers. It should include everything you need to work with the Python framework for the Web.

The French Linux distributor Mandriva, has updated its Enterprise Server 5 that first appeared mid 2009.

The current version of the Samba server coordinates better with Winbind and supports the experimental SMB2 protocol.

Much more working memory, Flash drives instead of conventional hard disks, and physically partitioning multiprocessor systems. These are some of the new features of IBM's fifth generation of x86 architecture: eX5 servers.

In the Open Source Project Lounge in Hall 2 of this year's CeBIT, the developers of BIND 10 presented a preview of the upcoming version of the nameserver and are looking for a contact to the community.