Oracle contributes data-integrity protection code to Linux code
Database industry giant Oracle has contributed data-integrity protection code which was developed in collaboration with hardware vendor Emulex to the Linux kernel.
The company said that this code would decrease the possibility that erroneous data will get written to disk.
Scott McIntyre, vice president of product marketing at Emulex added [...]

Linux 2.6.27 Kernel officially released
the developers behind the Linux Kernel have now officially released the version 2.6.27.
it was announced officially in a post made by Linus Torvalds on the Linux mailing list.
This latest release comes three months after the last release 2.6.26.
The release notes say that this updated version comes with ath9k wireless drivers in [...]

Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Alpha 3 released
The developers behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution have released the Intrepid Ibex Alpha 3 version of their upcoming Ubuntu 8.10 edition.
This latest test release comes with:
Xorg 7.4
Linux kernel 2.6.26
The developers warn that this alpha edition as expected can be buggy and it is not recommended for use on a [...]