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The hot topic of virtualization has developed into a must have for any vendor’s portfolio: following Oracle, Sun has now announced its own virtualization and management platform titled xVM.

Developers are currently working on a Debian variant for the lightweight Linux Eee notebook by Asus.

Red Hat has signed the Sun’s Contributor Agreement and TCK License Agreement with the aim of developing an Open Source Java platform for RHEL.

Google’s mobile phone has been dubbed Android and is actually an Open Source platform with an operating system and applications.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. reported results today for its fiscal first quarter, which ended September 30, 2007.

Just over four months ago, Sun's chief open source strategist, Ian Murdock, revealed the first details of plans for an open source variant of Sun's Solaris operating system. Now the first developer version has been released.

Security researchers at Secunia have discovered a vulnerability in the Cups printing system.

It was good news across the board for ATI graphics card owners with AMD deciding to go for a free driver and immediately delivering the goods. Now the proprietary Linux driver, Fglrx 8.42.3, has been released, and it promises various improvements.

The two chip manufacturers closed Q3 with a net loss of US$ 396 m for AMD and a profit of US$ 1.9 billion for Intel.

Hewlett-Packard has now completed the acquisition of Neoware. The thin client computing and virtualization solution provider will add value to HP's Linux portfolio.