While SUSE Studio does not offer the breadth of features of rPath's rBuilder, Novell's product is much easier at appliance creation, says the review.

rPath does a disservice to itself and to many others by assisting the company which openly attacks GNU/Linux, on which rPath's business is based

Watch a fun video based on 8 IT predictions of rPath. Everyone has their predictions for the new year but do they often prognosticate using an animated video? The folks over at rPath created a clever video animation depicting their reasonable and humorous predictions for 2010. rPath might be best known for its online virtual appliance builder. You can also download rBuilder.

"The third alpha of Foresight 2.0 has been released. Alpha 3 is available for download on rBuilder at http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/project/foresight/release?id=5953 for both x86 and x86_64. Please be aware that rBuilder may be down for scheduled maintenance this weekend. This alpha release is not intended for every day use, but for testing and development of Foresight..."

The CentOS project, which has apparently settled a dispute that threatened to lead to a fork, released CentOS 5.4. Reflecting changes made to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, CentOS 5.4 upgrades 266 packages, adds 27, and implements preview versions of the ext4 file-system and KVM hypervisor.

In order for Foresight Linux to follow development trends more quickly, Michael Johnson (the founder of rPath and former head of Fedora) has proposed switching from rPath Linux to Fedora.

The Linux Foundation, the non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting Linux, has announced that rPath, a systems management specialist, has become its newest member

The Linux Foundation and Novell team up to deliver Build Service, which will aid in the creation of software packages for CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, OpenSUSE, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise and Ubuntu.

Michael K. Johnson, a familiar name currently at rPath, has posted an interesting set of suggestions on ways to reinvigorate Foresight development; he starts by suggesting that they drop rPath as the base system.