Red Hat Wednesday made its Enterprise Linux OS available on demand by releasing it for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service that hosts business applications. The move is part of Red Hat's so-called "automation" strategy, which aims to deliver a Linux and open-source infrastructure for simplifying how applications run and are managed.

"In this month's update, the FSF tries to block a patent-encumbered standard from slipping through the IETF, the FSF Europe reports on the latest court decisions in the Microsoft case, and the FSF India meets with their government to coordinate the promotion of free software.

Skype has released a new Beta version of it’s VoIP client for Linux. The new release comes with video support.... I know this is proprietary software but it is about time they supported GNU/Linux. Bury it if you don't care.

New plugins for Compiz Fusion. One allows a cube of photos inside the cube. Another allows different wallpapers for each desktop...Cool

"After an entertaining and though-provoking session of lightning talks featuring (among others) fonts on the Web, efficient XML interchange and a dog in a plane cockpit, we return to the panel format for a discussion on 'Making Video a First-Class Citizen of the Web'..."

Red Hat has signed a pair of agreements with Sun Microsystems that will help put the open source company on the fast track to delivering a more complete end-to-end application development and runtime stack for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers.

This distribution deserves more detail here, and it will get it in a later post, but so far Fluxbuntu is looking like a solid candidate for a base to build a Debian/Ubuntu derived distro for the Zonbu.

You probably know this: you power on your machine, and immediately after you've logged in you manually start your two or three favourite applications. Why not have the system start these applications for you automatically? This short guide shows how to accomplish this under GNOME.