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New Fedora Linux pushed back a week

The release of Fedora Core 4, the latest free version of Linux from Red Hat, has been pushed back a week.

Fedora programmers had hoped to release Fedora Core 4 June 6, but the current schedule now gives June 13 as the release date. The move means the software likely will arrive at just about the same time as Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris.

Red Hat and its programmers have largely controlled Fedora for most of its existence, but the company is make Fedora into a neutral project through the establishment of the Fedora Foundation last week.

Mandrakesoft upgrades Linux for supercomputing

Mandrakesoft, a French Linux seller that's seen hard times competing with better-known brands such as Red Hat, has updated a product for high-performance technical computing.

A new version of the company's Mandrakelinux Clustering product includes support for the InfiniBand high-speed networking technology used to link numerous lower-end machines into a single computational engine, the company said Wednesday.

One software user is Hewlett-Packard, whose 240-processor HPC1 computing cluster can be used by customers in the manufacturing, bioinformatics, and oil and gas industries. That system employs an InfiniBand switch from Voltaire.

Mandrake isn't the only one interested in the … Read more

SCO unveils Web site detailing Linux claims

Months late, the SCO Group has unveiled a Web site set up to detail its claims against Linux, which the company argues in court cases violates its own Unix intellectual property.

SCO said in October it planned to set up the Web site--something of a counterbalance to the Groklaw site that frequently takes potshots at SCO's claims. Initially expected to be called ProSCO and upon launch in November, the site ended up with the name SCO IP.

The site is "designed to provide you with factual information around litigation related to the SCO Group," it said. … Read more

Fedora for Itanium taking baby steps

An effort to extend Red Hat's Fedora version of Linux to computers using Intel's Itanium processors is getting under way. A lead programmer, Silicon Graphics employee Prarit Bhargava, has established a mailing list, and is trying to coax Red Hat to release an Itanium version of its "rawhide" prototype Linux.

Fedora is Red Hat's fast-changing version of Linux, intended to attract outside programming involvement and to mature new technology quickly. Fedora today supports x86 processors such as Intel's Pentium and Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron, and the forthcoming Fedora Core 4 will extend to IBM's Power processors … Read more