SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The Linux Foundation has announced the details for its second Legal Summit, which will be held at the Motorola Customer Briefing Center in Schaumburg, Ill. on April 23, 2008.

One year after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias 'etch' and nearly three years after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias 'sarge' the security support for the old distribution (3.1 alias 'sarge') is coming to an end on March 31st. The Debian project is proud to be able to support its old distribution for such a long time and even for one year after a new version has been released.

Ubuntu announced the release of 6.10 almost 18 months ago, on October 26, 2006.  As with the earlier releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 18 months. The support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 6.10 will reach end of life on Friday April 25th, 2008.  At that time, Ubuntu Security Notices will no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 6.10.

SALT LAKE CITY – Novell has announced its development plans for the next generation of its enterprise Linux platform, SUSE Linux Enterprise 11. The best-engineered and most interoperable platform for mission-critical computing, SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 will be designed to form the heart of the modern IT organization, providing a foundation for mission-critical workloads across the enterprise by leveraging new technologies for server virtualization, consolidation and appliances, as well as innovative client computing breakthroughs. As a result, customers will be able to experience unique new levels of flexibility, efficiency and agility, regardless of whether they deploy SUSE Linux Enterprise directly on the hardware or as a virtual machine guest. SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 will be a key component in Novell's efforts to harmoniously integrate mixed-IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The Linux Foundation has announced an update of the Linux Standard Base (LSB). The new LSB 3.2 introduces new features for interpreted languages, printing and multimedia, further enabling application developers to easily and cost-effectively support the Linux operating system.

Willy Tarreau has released a new Linux 2.4 series kernel, 2.4.36.1.  It includes fixes for 6 minor security issues, most of them brought by Dann Frazier of the  Debian security team. It also restores the ability to build user-space depending on kernel headers with GCC 4.2.

The Debian project is pleased to announce the third update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename etch).  This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustment to serious problems.

I finally managed to get a child in front of the XO PC from the One Laptop Per Child project. I thought I would share my observations from watching her interact with this interesting tool.

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LONDON – Alfresco Software has released its second global survey of trends in the use of open source software in the enterprise. The Alfresco Open Source Barometer Survey, conducted throughout 2007 using opt-in data provided by Alfresco's 35,000 community members, shows deployments of Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux have a market share of 24% and 21%, respectively.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – (NASDAQ:CTXS) Citrix Systems has announced Citrix XenServer 4.1 and Citrix XenServer Platinum Edition, the first new releases to its server virtualization product line since completing the acquisition of XenSource last quarter. With the new releases, XenServer becomes the first solution in the industry to address both virtual and physical servers.