Red Hat Puts Out Fedora 7 Community Release
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

With Enterprise Linux 5 off and running in the market, it is time for Red Hat and the community of developers behind this variant of the Linux platform to start building what will eventually become Enterprise Linux 6. That development happens through the Fedora Project, which launched Fedora 7 last week. READ MORE >

Novell Posts Another Loss in the Second Quarter
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Novell announced its financial results for its second fiscal 2007 quarter last Wednesday, and the company was able to show revenue growth of 3 percent to $239 million. In the quarter ended April 30, Novell also booked a $2.2 million loss, but only a loss of $110,000 on continuing operations after divesting some unprofitable businesses. This is considerable progress compared to the first fiscal quarter of 2007, when sales dropped by 5 percent to $229.6 million and Novell had a loss of $19.9 million. READ MORE >

Microsoft-Novell Deal Has Escape Clause
by Alex Woodie

Microsoft may stop distributing coupons for SuSE Linux if certain changes to the GPL v3 are put into action, Novell has disclosed in a regulatory filing. The revelation is the latest twist in the ongoing struggle between backers of the open source Linux operating system and Microsoft, the largest developer of proprietary software. READ MORE >

As I See It: Operating on Overload
by Victor Rozek

If the name Conrad Gesner is unfamiliar, it's probably because you're either not a librarian or weren't around in the 16th century when Gesner walked the earth. Born in Switzerland, Gesner was a naturalist and a scholar, but he is known to librarians as the creator of the bibliography. And what an ambitious accomplishment it was! Known as the Bibliotheca universalis, it was written in three languages--Greek, Latin, and Hebrew--and it listed all of the writers who had ever lived and the titles of all their works. READ MORE >