Novell has just announced that Open Enterprise Server 2 is now available to customers worldwide. Open Enterprise Server 2 features 64-bit software service support, storage management enhancements and NetWare virtualisation. Novell Open Enterprise Server combines workgroup services from Novell with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, completing Novell's Open Enterprise Server shift to providing workgroup services entirely on Linux.

The developers of Arch Linux and Zenwalk have just released the latest versions of their distributions. Both rely on kernel 2.6.22.9 and claim to be lean and fast.

Seven months after the first alpha version, Novell and the community have made it on schedule: the new, free Suse distribution includes a KDE 4 preview, one-click installation, the new Libzypp package manager, and an accelerated boot process.

The Canary Isles now rely almost entirely on Linux in education.

The latest version of the Puppy Linux distribution, which weighs in at a mere 100MB, includes useful changes to the boot, configuration and shutdown scripts.

Fedoras Re-Spins are “new installation versions” including a full set of updates since the official release. The project uses the “Jigdo Method” for a quick download.

Montavista has released a new version of its Linux distribution for mobile devices

Release Manager Steve Langasek today announced the first beta version of the next generation Ubuntu, Gutsy Gibbon.