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• Ubuntu will begin updating daily, report says

  Ubuntu may shift from updating every six months to updating every day, according to a report Tuesday in The Register.

• Attachmate to retain Novell Unix copyrights

  Novell's copyrights for the Unix operating system will remain under Attachmate's control as part of the companies' pending merger, a Novell spokesman said Wednesday.

• Microsoft's hand in Novell deal bodes ill for Linux

  Attachmate may be the primary purchasing party in the Novell acquisition deal announced today, but the involvement of Microsoft means there's a fresh new threat to Linux looming on the horizon.

• Microsoft purchasing 882 Novell patents

  CPTN Holdings LLC, a consortium of technology companies organized by Microsoft, is purchasing 882 Novell patents for US$450 million cash, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing submitted Monday by Novell.

• 12 Ubuntu derivatives you should consider

  It's no secret that Ubuntu 10.10, or Maverick Meerkat, is one of the most user-friendly Linux distributions of all time for business and home users.

• Tiny Linux Kernel patch delivers huge speed boost

  What a difference 233 lines of code can make.

• Oracle releases Solaris 11 Express

  Oracle on Monday released Solaris 11 Express, a version of the Unix operating system that is aimed at developers and also serves as a preview for the upcoming release of Solaris 11 next year.

• Jolicloud may beat Chrome OS to netbook market

  Google's Chrome OS may be ultimately intended to run on cloud-focused netbooks when it comes out, but as of yesterday it looks like a small, startup competitor could beat the search giant to the proverbial punch.

• Linux Mint 10 ‘Julia' is now official

  The Linux Mint team announced today that the final release of version 10 of the free and open source operating system, dubbed "Julia," is now officially available.

• Red Hat releases RHEL 6

  Red Hat on Wednesday released version 6 of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution.

• Ubuntu will adopt Wayland Graphics System

  Hard on the heels of Canonical's controversial decision to use the 3D-enabled Unity interface in its desktop Ubuntu operating system came word late last week that it will also adopt a new graphics system.

• Cloud and virtualisation features set Fedora 14 apart

  Fedora 14, or "Laughlin," made its official debut on Tuesday, and it's packed with a raft of new features designed to enhance the experience for users of the open source desktop operating system.

• 5 things to do first with Ubuntu

  Ubuntu 10.10, or Maverick Meerkat, is proving to be one of the best, most user-friendly distributions of the Linux operating system ever seen, so it's no wonder that businesses and individuals are adopting the new operating system in growing numbers every day.

• Canonical Ubuntu splits from GNOME over design issues

  Canonical is changing the default interface on the next release of Ubuntu from GNOME to Unity, a new open source project that focuses on simplified interface and three dimensional displays.

• Why 'fragmentation' isn’t a problem for Android or Linux

  Why is it that what's viewed as healthy competition in one arena is so frequently labeled a "fragmentation problem" in other areas these days?