Edgy close to release

Ubuntu 6.10, codenamed Edgy Eft, is approaching release. According to development mailing lists, the release candidate freeze for Ubuntu 6.10 began earlier this month.

"During this time, uploads should be made only for changes which are critical for the release, and must be approved by the release team. As we work to prepare the release, further information about these restrictions may be announced," wrote Tollef Heen.

According to Edgy`s release schedule the final release should hit the download servers this Thursday if there are no critical problems.

Novell is moving away from shipping the ReiserFS file system as the default in its Suse distribution. Novell said new versions of Suse Linux Enterprise will use ext3 as the default file system, important foundational software that manages how data is stored on hard drives, CNet News reports.

The change demotes the current default, ReiserFS, to a secondary, though still supported, option. The author of ReiserFS, Hans Reiser, was arrested earlier this month on a murder charge after his estranged wife Nina, disappeared.

Scalix, a Linux-based e-mail, calendaring and messaging company, has kicked off its open source project by delivering the first of a series of open source components.

Keeping to plans it announced in July to bring enterprise-class e-mail and calendaring to the open source community, the source code components released today are part of the base code for all Scalix product editions: Scalix Community Edition, Scalix Small Business Edition, and Scalix Enterprise Edition. The open source components can be downloaded here.