Canonical's withdrawal of funding to the Kubuntu project apparently is not very important to the company's owner, Mark Shuttleworth.

Acronis, a leading provider of data protection and disaster recovery solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced that Acronis Backup & Recovery® 11 Virtual Edition has been enhanced to include new features for Red Hat® Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 and can be previewed from the new Red Hat Market Place forum. A free trial of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Virtual Edition is also available exclusively on Red Hat Market Place and includes the migration of three production workloads from physical or other virtual environments to the new Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 platform.

Two months back, Red Hat developers Lennart Poettering and Kay Sievers proposed a fundamental change to the structure of Linux in the shape of the Journal daemon, meant to replace the venerable syslog.

For as long back as I can remember, GNU/Linux distributions have resembled Windows in one respect - that start menu at the bottom of the left side of the screen.

Acronis has appointed Alex Pinchev as its president and chief executive officer.

Microsoft's proposal for a secure boot process in Windows 8 has alarmed GNU/Linux vendors and the body that caters to kernel development to the extent that they have drafted documents to specify how such a process can be used without hindering the use of other operating systems.

Red Hat has begun to expand its Brisbane headquarters, with plans to boost engineering and support staff for the Asia Pacific region after it added a third level to its facility.

Just a month short of one year since it forked from OpenOffice.org, the free office suite, LibreOffice, has released version 3.4.2 aimed at both private users and businesses.

Microsoft has announced that its patent-licensing deal with Novell, which expires in November this year, will be renewed for a further four years.

Journalist, FOSS advocate, feminist - Carla Schroder is all these and more. But more than anything it is her straight talking that marks her out - when she takes a stand on issues she is driven by conviction.