Credativ supports open source

Open source support specialist Credativ has launched the Open Source Support Centre, which aims to support a range of community developed software, from Linux to MySQL, reports CNET News.

Launched in the UK on Tuesday, after running successfully in Germany for the past two years, the OSSC enables users to access a wide variety of skills in different open source distributions.

The supported distributions include Debian, Ubuntu, Suse, Red Hat, Xandros, Gnome, KDE, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kolab Groupware, eGroupware, Asterisk, Apache, Samba, Nagios, and Xen.

Nagios Enterprises and GroundWork Open Source announced a partnership focused on market development and shared delivery of services around open source IT monitoring and management, according to Business Wire.

"Nagios Enterprises is pleased to collaborate with GroundWork Open Source," said Nagios creator and lead developer Ethan Galstad.

"In the last 18 months, GroundWork has done some great things with Nagios in developing a comprehensive IT management solution, and Nagios Enterprises can now extend the joint value further with the new formalised working relationship," he says.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has published the source code of Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service), a precursor to the Unix operating system begun as a research project at the university in 1965, reports CNET News.

The code is hosted on MIT`s Multics Web site. MIT, General Electric, and Bell Labs worked to commercialise it, but Bell, originator of the more influential and still widely used Unix operating system, dropped out in 1969.

Honeywell took over GE`s computer business, and Honeywell became Bull, which donated the source code at the site, MIT said. News of the donation was posted at the Multicians site. Bernard Nivelet, a retired Bull director for strategy, engineering, and sales, led the initiative to post the code.