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Linux

11 March 2010

Fixstars Releases Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux for CUDA

Fixstars releases "Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux for CUDA," the first enterprise Linux OS optimized for GPU computing.

Linux

11 March 2010

Linux Rocks The Embedded World

As usual, Linux was everywhere at last week's Embedded World show in Nuremberg, Germany.

Linux

11 March 2010

DIN-rail PC runs Linux on 150MHz SoC

Advantech has announced a box PC intended for DIN-rail mounting that uses the company's x86-compatible EVA-X4150 SoC (system-on-chip).

Linux

10 March 2010

GNOME And KDE Narrow The Gap in Usability

Despite all the talk about the mythical Year of the Linux Desktop, somewhere in the last few years, free software passed a milestone without anyone noticing.

Linux

10 March 2010

Linux Foundation launches Linux.com Store

The Linux Foundation has announced the launch of a new Linux.com online Store located at http://store.linux.com.

Linux

10 March 2010

If Novell Gets Bought, Will Red Hat follow?

Elliott's proposed acquisition of Novell promises to shake up the software industry, which has grown a bit staid in the past year or two.

Linux

09 March 2010

Novell: Linux Breaks Even as Microsoft Deal Revenues Wane

Novell (NYSE: NOVL) executives said this week that it's seven-year-old Linux business has finally broken even - making good on promises made a year ago.

Linux

25 February 2010

Researchers estimate Linux kernel at 1bn euros

The two academics, Jesus Garcia-Garcia and Isabel Alonso de Magdaleno, estimated the cost of replacing the kernel at current European prices using the Constructive Cost Model 81 algorithm, often used to estimate the cost of traditional commercial software projects.

Linux

16 February 2010

Anti piracy update for Windows 7 delayed in China

Chinese users will receive the latest update to Windows 7 activation technology months later than users elsewhere, as Microsoft tries a softer approach to fighting software piracy in China.

Linux

16 February 2010

Windows and Linux heat up mobile market

For those resigned to 30 years of Apple dominance in the mobile market, think again.

Linux

11 February 2010

Linux to help ST-Ericsson cut smartphone price

Mobile electronics firm ST-Ericsson has developed a Linux-based chip platform that could cut the wholesale price of smartphones to less than €100.

Linux

11 February 2010

Father of Linux loves the Google Nexus One

It's still not clear how well Google will surmount challenges selling its Nexus One to ordinary folks, but when it comes to endorsement from the tech-savvy realm, it doesn't get much better than this.

Linux

11 February 2010

Microsoft drop Linux and UNIX enterprise search support

Microsoft Corp said it will stop developing Linux and Unix core search versions of FAST Enterprise Service Platform (ESP) core, which the software maker snapped up in 2008, following the release of its Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 software suites later this year.

Linux

11 February 2010

The Linux desktop evolves with KDE 4.4

The KDE project developers have announced the availability of version 4.4 of the KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC), code named "Caikaku".

Linux

11 February 2010

Ksplice abolishes the reboot

Ksplice Inc today officially launched its no-reboot patching service for Linux servers.

Linux

10 February 2010

LPI partners with Novell on Linux certs

Novell and the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) have announced a new international partnership aimed at standardising their entry-level Linux certification programs.

Linux

15 January 2010

Linux CTO heads to Google

Ted T'so, the chief technology officer of the Linux Foundation, has moved on to start a new career at Google.

Linux

15 January 2010

Linux is forcing Microsoft to cut prices

Microsoft used to bury the cost of Windows in the $1,000-plus price of a new PC.

Linux

15 January 2010

Microsoft predicts Linux will lose out in mobile tests

Linux is shaping up as Microsoft's target in a potential war of attrition to gain lost market share for Windows Mobile in handsets.

Linux

15 January 2010

Linux Android growing in stature

There I was, sitting in Las Vegas Airport after CES.

Linux

15 January 2010

PKI gets support for Red Hat platform

Building on the continued success of the public key infrastructure (PKI) platform, Entrust, Inc.



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