SEP open sources parts of its backup solution

At CeBIT, backup and data recovery specialist SEP AG is, for the first time, showing off its recently announced SEP sesam Backup Appliance (SEP SBA)

Just two and a half months after the the release of 2.6.32, Linux 2.6.33 has been released with highlights including a promising open source driver for NVIDIA graphics hardware, a replication solution to prevent server down times, "ATA Trim" support and a host of new and improved drivers

The free, open source code management system, Darcs, has been updated to version 2.4 with experimental interactive hunk editing, faster record and revert operations and a plan to take on performance

London.gov.uk, the official website for the Mayor of London and the Greater London Authority (GLA), has switched to the Drupal open source content management system

The SystemRescueCd developers have released version 1.4.0 of their system recovery tool, adding two new options that allow users to boot from NFS or NBD

the German district of Brandenburg, which surrounds but does not include the national capital of Berlin, is trialling the Navit car navigation system for its Police System

While the first beta of the open source TightVNC 2.0 VNC server currently only runs on Windows, it already offers numerous advancements in terms of file transfer, user interface and access control

The BBC have activated a protection mechanism on Flash based streaming system used by iPlayer, stopping open source media players from legally playing BBC content

At this year's CeBIT Open Source Forum, Knoppix creator Klaus Knopper announced the release of version 6.3 of his popular Live Linux distribution