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No recession woes for open source

News The economic situation is expected to be a boon for open source adoption, and for the companies that provide open source support for a fee, say industry experts.

Tuesday, March 17 2009 06:53 PM

Tags: Open source, IT budgeting, Software, Open-source Software, International Data Corp., Asia-Pacific, Software, e-mail, recession, Linux

Joint bid to pit Linux better against rivals

News The Open Source Development Labs and Free Standards Group have melded to form a new entity, called The Linux Foundation.

Monday, January 22 2007 01:43 PM

Tags: Linux, Open source, Legal

Microsoft releases tools to boost Web accessibility

News Microsoft is expected to release a new set of developer tools for products that improve the Internet's accessibility for people with disabilities.

Friday, January 18 2008 10:11 AM

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Standards, Interfaces, buses, I/O

Linux Foundation plans end-user summit

News High-profile users of Linux will get a chance to meet the kernel community at a New York summit in October.

Thursday, August 28 2008 11:06 AM

Tags: Linux, Open source, Web sites, Red Hat Inc., Conference, Novell Inc., New York, high-performance, Linux kernel, Linux Community

Linux standards tool adds app testing

News The Linux Foundation has included an app-checker tool in the Linux Standard Base public test version, aiming to address an acknowledged shortcoming.

Wednesday, October 22 2008 10:49 AM

Tags: Linux, Open source, Tool, OpenSSL, compliance, Linux Distribution, shell script, Linux, Open source, Linux Foundation

Linux kernel developer's guide published

News The Linux Foundation has released the guide for developers in an attempt to encourage participation by new programmers by explaining what is involved.

Sunday, August 17 2008 11:31 PM

Tags: Linux, Software engineering/development, Open source, Developer, Kernel, Linux Kernel, consortium, release candidate, patch management, Jeremy Allison

Ubuntu's new Linux tries getting cloud-friendly

News Canonical's newest versions of Linux are due Thursday. Notable features: synchronization for PCs and a built-in replica of Amazon Web Services for servers.

Tuesday, October 27 2009 09:03 AM

Tags: Linux, Operating System, Chrome OS, Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, EC2, software, Amazon.com Inc., Ubuntu, Web Service, Amazon Web Services

Microsoft, Linux Foundation find common ground

News The two parties may disagree on many issues, but are united in opposition to a law group's effort to add an implied warranty to the software industry.

Tuesday, May 19 2009 08:33 AM

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Mary Jo Foley, TomTom, software company, software, blog, Linux

Intel previews next-gen Atom, updates Moblin

News Chip architecture changes in "Pineview" promise to boost performance, while beta update to Moblin should let developers customize Linux-based netbook platform's look and feel.

Monday, May 25 2009 02:34 PM

Tags: Processors, Notebooks and tablets, Linux, Intel Corp., Open-source Software, Chip, Graphics, nettop, graphics chip, performance

Open-source leaders see Microsoft-TomTom suit as a threat

News Community pushing open and free software prepares to defend itself in light of Microsoft's "antagonistic" litigation involving Linux.

Friday, February 27 2009 11:07 AM

Tags: Patents, Lawsuits, Open source, Microsoft Corp., Patent, Open-source Software, TomTom, open-source leader, software, Linux Community

Canonical joins Linux Foundation

News The only surprise, says an open source analyst, is that Ubuntu-sponsor Canonical has taken until now to join the foundation.

Tuesday, August 19 2008 11:12 PM

Tags: Open source, Linux, Hewlett-Packard Co., Google Inc., Red Hat Inc., Ubuntu, Novell Inc., Oracle Corp., Mark Shuttleworth, desktop

Dell, HP, Lenovo rev up Linux with driver promise

News Dell, HP and Lenovo have promised to push chipset vendors to make open source drivers for Linux.

Monday, May 05 2008 12:43 AM

Tags: Open source, Linux, Hewlett-Packard Co., Novell Inc., ASUS, Lenovo Group Ltd., Linux Distribution, Dell Computer Corp., desktop, chipset

BT joins enterprise open source community

News As a strategic partner to FossBazaar, BT joins companies like Google, HP and Novell in promoting free and open source software in the enterprise.

Thursday, July 24 2008 10:08 PM

Tags: Open source, Hewlett-Packard Co., Google Inc., British Telecommunications, F/OSS, Novell Inc., software, Open-source Community, SourceForge, Linux

Legal summits to tackle Linux

News The Linux Foundation, custodians of the Linux trademark, have announced two legal summits to deal with legal issues surrounding Linux and open-source software.

Wednesday, September 12 2007 06:58 PM

Tags: Linux server OS, Linux, Linux desktop OS