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Ex-Sun chief dishes dirt on Gates, Jobs Don't expect Jonathan Schwartz to go quietly. Rackspace hires to align with MySQL offshoot A number of former Sun Microsystems employees who worked on Drizzle, an offshoot of the MySQL open-source database, have ended up at cloud infrastructure provider Rackspace, where they will continue their efforts, developer Jay Pipes wrote in a blog post Monday. Report: North Korea develops own Linux distribution North Korea has reportedly developed its own version of the Linux operating with a graphical user interface that closely resembles Microsoft Windows. Company puts Android on laptop with China-backed chips A Chinese company is tweaking Google?s Android operating system to run on a laptop using homegrown Chinese microprocessors, which are backed by the government. Open-source hardware takes steps toward gadget mainstream Open-source software is one of the great success stories of the past few decades. The Apache HTTP Server is the world's most popular Web server, Linux has more than held its own against Unix and other proprietary operating systems, and Mozilla's Firefox browser has given Microsoft's Internet Explorer strong competition over the years. Linux kernel worth ?1 billion Researchers at the University of Oviedo in Spain have estimated that the cost of replicating the development embodied in the Linux kernel at over ?1bn. Ubuntu Linux Now Available to US Gov't Customers Conical's Ubuntu has become third Linux operating system approved by the General Services Administration for use by federal purchasers. It joins Linux distributions from Red Hat and Novell, already available through the GSA Advantage purchasing program. Twitter growth prompts switch from MySQL to 'NoSQL' database Twitter Inc. is slowly moving off the MySQL database for so-called 'NoSQL' open-source database technology that's already been embraced by Web 2.0 counterparts, Facebook Inc. and Digg.

Distribution News: Development Release: Unity Linux 2010 RC1 Matthew Dawkins has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Unity Linux 2010, a minimalist distribution and live CD based on Mandriva Linux: "The Unity Linux project is pleased to announce its first candidate for release, 2010 RC1. We have taken the last nine weeks to.... Development Release: Fedora 13 Alpha Jesse Keating has announced the availability of the first alpha release of Fedora 13: "The Fedora 13 'Goddard' alpha release is available. Among the top features for end users, we have: automatic print driver installation so when you plug in a USB printer, Fedora will automatically offer to.... Development Release: MCNLive Kris Beta 1 MCNLive, a Mandriva-based distribution and live CD, has been resurrected by the members of the Dutch Mandriva Club. The first beta of the brand-new MCNLive Kris, is now available for download: "After a few years of silence around MCNLive, here we are again with a brand new MCNLive.... Development Release: PCLinuxOS 2010 Beta 1 The first beta build of PCLinuxOS 2010 has been released: "PCLinuxOS 2010 Beta 1 features 2.6.32.8 kernel using the BFS scheduler for maximum desktop performance on i686 computers. This kernel supports up to 4 GB of memory. A PAE kernel is available from the Synaptic package manager providing.... Development Release: SME Server 8.0 Beta 5 Ian Wells has announced the availability of the fifth beta release of SME Server 8.0, a CentOS-based server distribution: "The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 8.0beta5 which is based on CentOS 5.4 and will be the next major release of.... Distribution Release: Frugalware Linux 1.2 Miklós Vajna has announced the release of Frugalware Linux 1.2, a general-purpose, community-built distribution for intermediate Linux users: "The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.2, our twelfth stable release. No new features have been added since 1.2rc2, but 62 changes have.... DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 344 This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: Taking a look at PC-BSD 8.0 News: Ubuntu unveils new desktop theme, KNOPPIX releases 6.3 CeBIT edition, openSUSE adds LXDE desktop to install media, multicd.sh Questions and answers: RHEL 6, useful shell tips Released last week: Elive 2.0, Linux From Scratch 6.6.... Distribution Release: NuTyX 2009.3 Thierry Nuttens has announced the release of NuTyX 2009.3, a French desktop Linux distribution with custom package management. This is the fourth update in the 2009 series; while the base system, the C library and the compiler remains unchanged throughout the 2009.x releases, a number of small problems.... Development Release: Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Beta 1 Anil Gulecha has announced the availability of the first beta release of Nexenta Core Platform 3.0, a free and open-source operating system combining the OpenSolaris kernel with GNU application userland, Debian utilities and Ubuntu software packages: "On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability.... Development Release: SimplyMEPIS 8.5 RC2 The second release candidate for SimplyMEPIS 8.5, a beginner-friendly, Debian-based desktop Linux distribution, is ready for download and testing: "Warren Woodford has released SimplyMEPIS 8.4.99, RC2 of MEPIS 8.5, now available from MEPIS and public mirrors. Warren reported: 'In the past week, we've fixed some bugs reported by.... Distribution Release: Elive 2.0 After a long development period lasting more than two years, Samuel Baggen announced today the release of Elive 2.0, a Debian-based desktop Linux distribution featuring an optimised Enlightenment 17 window manager with plenty of desktop eye candy: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the....