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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, GUI, Microsoft Corp., Linux Desktop Experience, 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

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

Google set to promote Chrome extensions

News One of the standout features of Chrome 4.0 is customization through extensions. Google appears on the brink of launching a gallery to showcase them.

Thursday, November 19 2009 09:49 AM

Tags: Web browsers, Extension, Google Inc., Web Browser, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Google Chrome, Apple Mac OS, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox

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

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

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 pulls Windows 7 download tool

News Software giant takes down tool aimed at making it easier to put Windows 7 on Netbooks after blogger raises question about whether the software improperly uses open source code.

Wednesday, November 11 2009 10:51 AM

Tags: Open source, Open Source, Microsoft Corp., software, GPL, Tool, USB, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Linux

Firefox-syncing Weave updates to beta

News Mozilla's homegrown tool for synchronizing Firefox across computers and devices graduates to beta and introduces incremental syncing and a more streamlined, less obtrusive experience.

Tuesday, November 17 2009 10:04 AM

Tags: Web browsers, Web sites, Computer, Web sites, Web Browser, Tool, On-demand, Apple Macintosh, Mozilla Corp., Beta

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

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

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

Intel talks Linux, netbooks and rivalry with ARM

Insight newsmaker Intel's Imad Sousou discusses the evolution of the Moblin Linux distribution at recent Open Source in Mobile conference.

Saturday, October 03 2009 05:38 PM

Tags: Mobile processors, Development/design, Mobile platforms, Open Source, ARM, Google Inc., Intel Corp., Operating System, Experience, Moblin

Pro-Linux group nabs Microsoft patents

News The Open Invention Network has acquired 22 patents sold recently by Microsoft, aiming to help Linux-based companies avoid becoming targets for more legal action.

Wednesday, September 09 2009 10:13 AM

Tags: Linux, IBM Corp., Patent, Red Hat Inc., IP, TomTom, AST Computers, Linux