The new java implementation of Microsoft’s network protocol CIFS was released by Alfresco provider of Content Management System of the same name under GPL: JLAN provides a CIFS server as well as CIFS client and is being characterised as an “embedded virtual file system” by Alfresco which supports various authentication methods (e.g. Kerberos) and works on Windows, Linux, MacOS X, and Solaris.

Nowadays, the iSCSI technology is quite popular in the storage world. This article shows an iSCSI demo environment which consists of one Debian Linux host and one Netapp Filer.We try to show the most important features of this protocol.

Sourcefire, the company that bought the SNORT OpenSource project some time ago, acquired today the ClamAV antivirus project.

From the press Release:

“Open source innovator and SNORT® creator, Sourcefire, Inc. today announced the acquisition of leading open source gateway anti-virus technology provider, ClamAV. Sourcefire will continue to develop and offer ClamAV as an open source (GPL) solution, while also leveraging it throughout the commercial Sourcefire Enterprise Threat Management (ETM) offerings.”

The ClamAV project released a FAQ to answer common questions regarding the aquisition.

According to an article on phoronix.com, the OpenSource ATI driver makes good progress and supports now TV out.

The Linux Desktop e16 version 0.16.8.9 is now available for download. This version is a bugfix and maintenance release.

Mysql will end the distribution of source tarballs for the MySQL Enterprise Server, according to an article on linux.com

MonoDevelop is a GNOME IDE primarily designed for C# and other .NET languages. This release contains lots of improvements, new features and bug fixes. Read more…

Fedora 8 Test 1 has been released: “Fedora 8 Test one has been loosed upon the world today. Included in this release is a “Fedora” installable ‘choose your own adventure’ style set of isos and trees for i386, x86_64, and ppc(64). Also included are Live images of both the Fedora Desktop and the Fedora KDE desktop. These are available for both i686 and x86_64 (x86_64 is DVD size only). Remember these can be used on USB media via the livecd-iso-to-disk utility available in the livecd-tools package.”

The chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo announced the availability of Thinkpad notebooks with Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED 10) preinstalled for Q4 2007, according to the german news site heise.de.

Since this Thursday the first Beta release for KDE 4.0 is available. This release marks the beginning of the integration process which will bring the powerful new technologies included in the now frozen KDE 4 libraries to the applications. Some of the programmes received additional features and the usability has been improved. One highlight is the geographical application Marble showing a spherical earth, which you can zoom and rotate similar to goolge earth. The feature freeze for applications will follow with the second Beta-Release. Until then the developers have time to add new functions to their programms and to to adapt them to the new library interface.