Sun Microsystems has realized the second quarter announced release of version 5.1 of MySQL.

Free Linux distro openSUSE will from now on release without an end-user license agreement. The project will be using the same license notice as their competitor Fedora.

In May 2008 at Linuxtag in Berlin, Nat Friedman had presented SUSE Studio, with which you can build your own Linux distro with just a few mouse clicks. SUSE Studio images are now available for the Eee 701 PC.

For two years now Novell and Microsoft have been playing with the idea of interoperability between Linux and Windows. They hope to strengthen their partnership further through their announcement of the Advanced Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 and a beta of the Moonlight Firefox rich media plug-in.

Computer vendor Transtec has actualized its Calleo 330 server series on the new 45-nonometer Opterons from AMD. All Calleos now come with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.

Californian Ben Kevan, server administrator for Linux and VMware, ponders the future of YaST in his blog.

Developers of the Gnu Image Manipulation Program Gimp have released the second bug fix for the Gimp 2.6.

When polls closed at exactly 12 UTC last Saturday, the openSUSE Project had chosen its first community elected board.

British company PureCM.com Ltd has released a new version of its PureCM software configuration management (SCM) tool.

Sun Microsystems has dropped three new Linux servers on the market: a storage module with 1.2 TBytes, a blade module with two AMD Opteron Quadcores and a blade server with two Intel Xeon Quadcores. A photo gallery shows them in detail.