Ubuntu Linux goes to the cloud

The founder of Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth, has been wining and dining tin man Michael Dell over his plans to put the Ubuntu Linux operating system onto the cloud, reports The Inquirer.

Dubbed the 'Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud', it will be available from Dell as the Dell Canonical UEC Solution.

The system uses Dell's PowerEdge C2100 and C6100 servers and comes with a reference architecture and deployment guide.

IBM is refiguring its hybrid mainframe-blade 'system of systems' that was released last July and that began shipping in the fall, says The Register.

Big Blue is also providing details of the hypervisors, networks, and operating systems that will be supported on the hybrid configuration, which marries a System zEnterprise 196 mainframe with blade chassis equipped with Power and Xeon processors.

The zEnterprise 196 mainframe is based on the company's z11 processor, which has four CISC cores running at 5.2GHz implemented in a 45-nanometer silicon-on-insulator process, and which weighs in at 1.4 billion transistors including L1, L2, and L2 caches; integer, floating point, and decimal units; and a slew of other features.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 has been out for a while, but that's not stopping Red Hat from updating RHEL 5, states Search Data Centre

The company says the new RHEL 5.6 includes 340 enhancements and more than 2 000 fixes in the areas of hardware, networking, virtualisation, Web services, security authentication and file systems, and is available for download by active subscribers.

RHEL 5.6 highlights include support for new processors, chipsets and multimedia platforms, including drivers and updated installation media.