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Fedora Core 3 (FC3), released last month as the successor to Red Hat's consumer-grade product that was discontinued a year ago, takes Linux to a whole new level.

LINUX HEADWARE FIRM "Red Hat" is fuming at the way that Sun is pitching it's release of Solaris 10 earlier this week.

Though Sun resells Red Hat's software, the firms are growing increasingly hostile as they compete for the same set of customers.

Now Sun has openly said that it sees the new version of Solaris as a tilt at Red Hat which it sees as sitting in the space that it wants to occupy.

Red Hat has seen the moves coming for a while. Its opening shots have been to fly a plane over Sun's Solaris launch with a banner with a banner with the Red Hat logo.

The Fedora Project and Red Hat would like to announce the third release of Fedora Core.

Fedora Core 3 is a general purpose Linux operating system, available for x86 and x86-64 processors. Fedora Core 3, includes:

- the 2.6.9 Linux kernel
- Xorg 6.8.1
- GNOME 2.8
- KDE 3.3.0
- GCC 3.4
- SELinux

The Fedora Project would like to thank the thousands of community members whose testing and contributions have raised the bar of quality and made this release possible.

Linux maker Red Hat is warning users about an email that pretends to be an official security advisory but is actually a phishing-type scam that contains links to malicious code. The fake email appears to have been sent from security@redhat.com and was first spotted on Friday evening with a subject line: "RedHat: Buffer Overflow in 'ls' and 'mkdir'".

Linux vendor Red Hat on Wednesday announced a partner programme that will certify manufacturers of appliances which have been integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This is the latest move in the company's turn-around over embedded Linux: earlier this year it announced a deal with Wind River, a vendor of embedded software, to jointly develop an embedded variant of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Fedora Core 3 Test2 was released today, and so here's a chance to preview the software. I've been eager to try out Gnome 2.8 and KDE 3.3, so I tried to install them on my Core 2 box, which resulted in a severe package dependency crisis, so since Test 2 was released today I figured I would just reformat and install it for kicks, and to get my KDE 3.3. As you have probably already guessed, not much has changed when it comes to the Anaconda installer.

Linux software maker Red Hat on Tuesday released an update to its enterprise product with security upgrades, support for IBM Power5 servers, new driver support and bug fixes.

The security upgrades in Enterprise Linux 3 Update 3 include Exec-shield and Position Independent Executable (PIE) features to protect against stack, buffer or function-pointer overflows and other exploits that involve overwriting data structures in memory. No-execute (NX) support will now be available for Intel x86, Intel EM64T and Advanced Micro Devices AMD64 processors.

Two former Red Hat employees have started their own Linux company, called Specifix, marketing a Red Hat-compatible version of Linux that users can modify to fit their business-specific needs - but still retain support. Ken Knuttila, co-founder and chief executive officer of Specifix said the company's Linux product differs from those of Red Hat and Novell's SuSE because once a user modifies a Red Hat or SuSE distribution, its service agreement is nullified, destroying what Specifix said is one of the most valuable aspects of Linux - the freedom to modify.

Red Hat's newest hobbyist and developer version of Linux, Fedora Core 2, caused trouble for some who found they couldn't start Windows after installing the Linux upgrade side by side with it. The bug had cropped up in testing, but after Red Hat released Fedora Core 2 in May, many more users reported their systems no longer would boot Windows. No data on the Windows side was destroyed and some manual hard drive reconfiguration fixed the problem.

Red Hat released its newest Linux product on Tuesday, Fedora Core 2, a free version designed for enthusiasts and developers who want to try out newer features. Fedora is designed as a proving ground where new technology can mature before incorporation into Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the company's corporate product. Although Fedora can be downloaded for free, it lacks long-term support from Red Hat and hardware and software partners such as IBM and Oracle.