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Linux-Windows gap to remain for five years

News Don't expect mainstream adoption for Linux five years down the road, even if Linux operating systems become more user-friendly, say analysts.

Wednesday, October 14 2009 07:06 PM

Tags: Linux desktop OS, Open source, Open Source, Ovum, Operating System, Linux Desktop Experience, GUI, Microsoft Corp., Sales, Microsoft Windows

Requests for Linux drivers flowing in

News Steady stream of requests for Linux hardware drivers may signal growing adoption of open source operating systems among enterprises.

Friday, August 14 2009 07:29 PM

Tags: Open source, Linux, Red Hat Inc., Asia-Pacific, Novell Inc., Japan, Hardware, hardware maker, Dell Computer Corp., desktop

Closer look at Microsoft's Linux code shocker

News Software giant is contributing codes for three drivers for inclusion in the open source operating system, in bid to make Windows a better host for Linux.

Tuesday, July 21 2009 09:28 AM

Tags: Business applications, Virtualization, GPL, device driver, Linux Kernel, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Linux, CNET Networks Inc.

Intel to pitch in on developing Chrome

News Chipmaker will work with Google on the Chrome OS in the same way it contributes to other Linux distributions, which take in parts of Intel's Moblin code.

Thursday, September 17 2009 09:33 AM

Tags: Processors, Operating systems, Intel Corp., Linux Company, Chip Company, Graphics, Novell Inc., Linux, Netbook, Processors

How to run .NET applications on Linux

Blogs In many enterprise environments we work with a mix of Windows and Linux servers. If you had to build a large, complex en...

Wednesday, June 24 2009 12:00 AM

Microsoft and Novell: Relationship 'exceeding expectations'

News Microsoft has sold US$220 million worth of subscription for Novell after just three years into the five-year deal, say companies' representatives.

Friday, October 09 2009 12:21 PM

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Virtualization, Microsoft Corp., Red Hat Inc., IP, Novell Inc., Sales, SuSE, SuSE Linux

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

Open source needs successful champions

News Open source industry needs profitable proponents to illustrate success, attract funding and encourage participation, says Red Hat CEO.

Wednesday, November 04 2009 07:15 PM

Tags: Open source, Linux server OS, Open Source, Google Inc., U.S., revenue, Asia, Red Hat Inc., ISV, open-source company

Linux buoys up Novell earnings

News Novell's third-quarter financial results show its Linux business up, while its enterprise applications are sinking.

Monday, August 31 2009 09:09 AM

Tags: Business applications, Linux, Open source, Novell Inc., compliance, Earnings, Linux system, access management, data center, Intel x86

MontaVista boasts one-second boot-up

News Embedded Linux vendor sets the next benchmark in the race to fast boot times, with its latest demonstration showing a system going from cold boot to "fully operational" in one second.

Wednesday, July 15 2009 06:21 PM

Tags: Linux, Open source, Linux Company, operating system, Environment, Dashboard, Embedded Linux, Linux, Open source, Web

Freescale aims Android at embedded kit

News A new Power Architecture port has taken Google's Linux-based operating system into the world of embedded devices.

Friday, October 30 2009 04:36 PM

Tags: Google Android, Smart phones, Google Inc., IBM Corp., Mentor Graphics Corp., open-source mobile operating system, RISC, Power Architecture, MPC8536E PowerQUICC III, Google Android

SCO Group wins Unix copyright appeal

News An appeals court rules that a judge was hasty in deciding Novell didn't sell Unix copyrights to SCO Group.

Wednesday, August 26 2009 09:39 AM

Tags: Business applications, SCO Group Inc., Unix, Novell Inc., Bankruptcy, payment, CEO, Linux, asset, agreement

Linux exploit gets around security barrier

News A security hole in the Linux kernel, which allows security features in the operating system to be bypassed, affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, according to a security researcher.

Tuesday, July 21 2009 10:19 AM

Tags: Linux, Network security, Security Management, Security, Source Code, Exploit, SANS Institute, Training, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Kernel

No thanks, Google--we've got Ubuntu

Insight perspective If there is one problem the open source community has suffered repeatedly over the past two decades, it's fragmentation. Google is about to make it worse.

Monday, July 20 2009 08:08 PM

Tags: Operating systems, Open source, Red Hat Inc., Google Inc., Web Browser, Ubuntu, Linux Community, Mark Shuttleworth, Linux Distribution, Linux