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Red Hat has spent the last couple of years dealing with a lawsuit from Firestar (later DataTern) concerning alleged patent infringement in their JBoss product. The details of the patent are not especially important at this point - what's pertinent is that Red Hat apparently paid the problem to go away, while preserving in the settlement (according to their own FAQ) broad freedom for the open source community. Now that they've released the actual settlement details, we can see how well they stack up.

The openSUSE team announced today the release of openSUSE Build Service 1.0. If you haven't been deeply involved in the production side of an open source project, the significance of this announcement may escape you. But in the long run, many everyday Linux users stand to benefit from this tool - if it catches on with developers.

As virtualization technology becomes more pervasive and starts to make its way into the operating system, it seems that more and more vendors want to get their slice of this particular pie. Now Linux vendor Red Hat has joined the fray, announcing its own embedded hypervisor at its annual user conference.