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Oracle gets go-ahead to buy Sun Microsystems. BBC News reports on the green light for the $7.4 billion deal.

How Moonlight 2.0 fits into Novell's Linux and open source plans. Now that Novell's Mono open source project has released the beta version of its Moonlight 2.0 code, what lies ahead?

Top 5 Linux video editing apps. Avidemux is a simple choice, and Cinelerra is very advanced.

PHP Toolkit for ADO.Net Data Services open sourced. Microsoft has introduced an open source project to bridge PHP and the company's .Net programming model.

LucidGaze for Lucene debuts. Lucid Imagination, which supports open source Apache Lucene and Solr search technologies, has delivered LucidGaze for Lucene, a free monitoring tool for installations using the Java Lucene search library.

Novell's Mono, which aims to create an open source, cross-platform set of tools compatible with Microsoft's .Net programming framework, has made the first, though incomplete public release , of Moonlight, an open source version of Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in.....

The third and last beta of OpenSUSE 11.0 has been announced, and it reportedly fixes over 700 bugs.....

Interesting analysis: A Tale of Four Kernels.....

Strong passwords are no panacea as SSH brute-force attacks rise.....