Linux distributor Red Hat has launched a public beta co-marketing initiative of its enterprise platform as a software service in cooperation with Amazon.

Following eight alpha versions, Mozilla has now released for first beta of version three of the Firefox web browser.

Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution has just launched its "Launchpad Personal Package Archive Service" for developers on the Canonical "Launchpad" platform.

Shuttle Inc., the market leader in the Mini-PC sector and manufacturer of multiple form- fctor solutions, is now offering its mini PCs preloaded with Linux in the UK.

IBM has published plans for its own network service for IT infrastructures under the "Blue Cloud" heading.

Microsoft’s Network Access Protection Plattform (NAP) security function will be available for Linux and the Mac operating system via third party products.

Version 2.0 of the Ubuntu Customization Kit (UCK) has just been released. The kit gives useres the ability to create customized Ubuntu Live CDs.

At Oracle’s own Open World fair in San Francisco, Oracle recently presented a virtualization software titled Oracle VM, based on the free Xen virtualization solution.

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