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Bryan Che, part of the project management team at Red Hat, started a new project at Fedora this week called Nightlife. Based on the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Condor Project, Nightlife will give people the ability to donate idle capacity from their own computers to an open, general-purpose Fedora-run grid for processing socially beneficial work and scientific research that requires access to large amounts of computing power.

SugarCRM users will now be able to deploy and manage a number of instances of the software through a new management console, the company has announced.....

A new laptop based on One Laptop Per Child's platform is slated to come to market for $75.....

Red Hat wins a Codie award.....

Coverity uncovers many improvements in OSS security.....

ZDNet U.K. is out with some interesting analysis of the LiMo Foundation's announcement that Verizon Wireless, Mozilla and several other organizations are joining up with it. According to the ZDNet U.K. report, there may be some moves afoot by two of the very well-known Linux distribution companies that currently operate in the enterprise space to join LiMo and combine mobile open source applications on Linux phones with enterprise open source deployments.

Andy Patrizio, over at InternetNews.com, is trotting out that tired old question once again: where are the open source billionaires? as if that was somehow relevant or necessary for open source to be worthwhile. Patrizio also suggests that open source is being carried by large vendors, but doesn't seem to grasp the benefits that the vendors are getting out of open source.

Sun Microsystems officials are maintaining that MySQL will remain fully open source but does that mean just the kernel?.....

Sun is also in a new partnership with Liferay, to deliver next-generation web technologies.....

Oracle is eyeing open source developers with its Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse, a new component of Oracle Fusion Middleware....

In other Oracle news, one of its executives says there should be only one Linux distribution: Red Hat.....

Linux.com has a video interview with IBM's Linux guru.....

SCO chief testifies: Linux is a copy of Unix.....Who is the open source big dog--Red Hat or Sun?.....A new report says more orginizations are jumping on open source, but price is not the only driver.....Are IP liabilities a hidden trap when deploying open source software?.....Should you consider Zimbra for your open source mail server?.....

By Raj Bala

ﾠLike many people, I downloaded and installed the new Ubuntu Hardy Heron release last week. While I was installing my favorite applications and getting everything configured, I realized something: Ubuntu could end up actually delivering on the oft-written about and dreamed of Web operating system concept. Many people have opined on this general topic, but it's actually a very difficult challenge to deliver and champion such a product. I'm betting that Canonical, the company that delivers Ubuntu, is capable of coming through.