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Canonical chases deals to ship Ubuntu Server preinstalled Canonical, the company that supports Ubuntu Linux, is trying to work out a deal with hardware vendors such as Dell to make Ubuntu available preinstalled on servers. Mozilla, Arm, others to build Linux UMPC platform A group of seven companies including Mozilla, Arm, and MontaVista Software are hoping to grow the market for a relatively new device category that sits between a smartphone and a laptop. October 3, 1:48 p.m. PDT Tech giants chart research goals Power consumption, parallelism, and the rapidly-expanding world of mobile communications are among the leading areas of research and development currently being investigated within some of the IT world's largest companies.  September 26, 2:53 p.m. PDT MontaVista releases new Linux-based mobile phone OS MontaVista Software planned to announce on Wednesday the latest version of its Linux-based mobile phone operating system, expected to be available in November. September 26, 5:27 a.m. PDT Red Hat profit, revenue continue to rise in strong Q2 Global expansion and strong Enterprise Linux subscription sales lifted Red Hat's revenue and net income to double-digit growth for its fiscal 2008 second quarter. September 25, 2:36 p.m. PDT From big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtualFrom big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtual While many IT shops see virtualization as a question of adopting EMC's VMware on servers running Windows or Linux, Nationwide Insurance has adopted the technology for both x86-based and mainframe-hosted servers. After all, notes Buzz Woeckener, the company's zLinux/Unix server manager, virtualization was invented for mainframes. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT On the road to the virtual desktop Click ‘n’ run. It seems like such a simple concept. Surf up to a Web page, select the desired application from a list, and click. Voila! Microsoft Word appears on your desktop. Or Excel, or Adobe Photoshop… you name it. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Herd behavior demonstrated at Demo "Whatever happened to working alone?” September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Transplace beefs up hardware for a virtual world Managing transportation logistics is all about handling scale. As transportation management services firm Transplace added consumer goods companies such as Del Monte, Office Depot, Home Depot, Auto Zone, and DirecTV as customers, it needed to quickly bring server capacity online. Already planning a hardware refresh to support continued growth, CTO Vince Biddlecombe decided to bring in server virtualization at the same time so that he'd have a more scalable, flexible platform for that anticipated growth. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Stonebridge Bank averts a capacity crisis It's a dilemma faced by IT administrators everywhere. "We ran out of rack space, air conditioning capacity, and UPSes at the end of 2004, but we needed more servers," recalls George Rapp, senior vice president of IT for Stonebridge Bank, a regional institution in Pennsylvania. Getting more power in and more heat out was just not an option for the bank's datacenter, so Rapp consolidated multiple Unix servers into one box to reduce the physical footprint and delay the crisis. "But it got us only part of the way," he notes. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Intel project aims to boost power efficiency in Linux Intel plans to announce an open-source project called LessWatts.org, which aims to improve the power efficiency of the Linux operating system and applications. September 20, 11:56 a.m. PDT Microsoft, Novell open interoperability lab Cross-platform virtualization is top of the list of projects that a new joint development lab operated by Microsoft and Novell will work on, executives said. September 12, 3:46 a.m. PDT Last call: Oliver's parting shot Back in the saddle again… September 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Red Hat adds to system monitoring service Red Hat said this week it had spruced up its Red Hat Command Center server- and application-monitoring service, eliminating the need for users to maintain a Red Hat-prescribed hardware appliance to collect monitoring data. August 29, 1:30 p.m. PDT Microsoft revises anti-Linux campaign with new site Microsoft has replaced its controversial anti-Linux "Get the Facts" Web site with a kinder, gentler site explaining how its Windows Server operating system compares to open-source Linux as well as other competitive OSes. August 24, 9:25 a.m. PDT Sourcefire acquires ClamAV open-source anti-malware project Network security specialist Sourcefire announced Friday that it has acquired ClamAV, an open-source gateway anti-malware project whose technologies are used in the products of a number of other vendors. August 17, 8:58 a.m. PDT Update: IBM extends support for Sun's Solaris Longtime rivals IBM and Sun Microsystems have signed an agreement related to operating systems technologies with IBM extending its support for Solaris to cover more of its x86 servers and blades, the two vendors announced Thursday. August 16, 12:14 p.m. PDT SCO to partners, customers: It's business as usual If The SCO Group's future looks grim, CEO and President Darl McBride apparently hasn't gotten the memo. In a letter to partners and customers filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, McBride said SCO is still committed to doing business as usual even after the company was dealt a crushing blow in its ongoing litigation over Unix copyrights. August 16, 10:24 a.m. PDT Xandros expands Microsoft partnership Linux distributor Xandros is licensing messaging protocols from Microsoft as part of an expansion of the partnership the two companies forged in June. August 15, 11:08 a.m. PDT Novell doesn't want to be the next SCO Now that Novell has scored a major win for Linux in its legal battle with The SCO Group, it has no interest in becoming like the company it's just defeated and won't mount any copyright-infringement claims over Unix, a spokesman said Tuesday. August 14, 3:43 p.m. PDT Linux unveils kernel project status tracker The nonprofit Linux Foundation has unveiled the Linux Weather Forecast, a Web site aimed at giving people a better sense of the status of specific Linux kernel projects. August 14, 1:49 p.m. PDT SCO says it's down but not out in Linux case The SCO Group acknowledged being dealt a significant blow Friday in its lawsuit against Novell but indicated that it may not be done fighting yet. August 13, 4:37 a.m. PDT Linux seen vying with Windows for platform dominance Having gained industry-wide recognition, Linux now is moving into its second stage of growth, in which it vies with Microsoft Windows as a dominant computing platform, Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, said Wednesday. August 9, 5:00 a.m. PDT Novell CEO backs standard Linux apps certification Emphasizing that more must be done to expand the volume of Linux applications, Novell President/CEO Ron Hovsepian proposed Wednesday that a standardized application certification process be developed among different players in the Linux market. August 8, 11:30 a.m. PDT Linux Foundation adds ace open-source attorneys to team The Linux Foundation Wednesday revealed that two attorneys well-known in the open-source community will make up the legal team for the group, which is aimed at protecting the interests of Linux in the community. August 8, 9:49 a.m. PDT Dell buys Zing, launches Ubuntu in Europe In what could be a new assault on the market for handheld gadgets, Dell has agreed to acquire Zing Systems, a company that makes software for distributing and managing music on mobile devices. August 7, 8:31 a.m. PDT Google ups Linux support as OIN licensee Google has increased its support for the open-source Linux operating system by becoming Open Invention Network's first end-user licensee. Set up in 2005, OIN is an intellectual property company focused on acquiring and pooling patents to protect Linux against patent infringement attacks. August 7, 5:35 a.m. PDT Mobile Linux group gets wider support A nonprofit organization formed by six of the biggest names in the cellphone business to promote the use of Linux in handsets has gotten wider industry support. August 7, 4:48 a.m. PDT Lenovo to preload Linux on some Thinkpads Lenovo Group will begin shipping Thinkpad notebooks preloaded with Linux from Novell in the fourth quarter of this year, the companies announced Monday. August 7, 4:15 a.m. PDT Red Hat Global Desktop is delayed Red Hat has released more details about its plans for Linux on the desktop, including news of a launch delay. August 6, 8:15 a.m. PDT Acer installing Linux on notebooks, but not Ubuntu Acer did not preinstall the Ubuntu Linux distribution on a batch of Aspire notebooks for sale in Singapore, but instead is installing a different version of the open source operating system, local dealers said. August 1, 5:39 a.m. PDT Xandros buys Linux e-mail vendor Scalix Linux desktop and server vendor Xandros on Wednesday acquired Scalix, which develops an open-source e-mail, calendar, and groupware platform. July 19, 7:12 a.m. PDT Oracle 11g for Linux to debut in August While Wednesday marked the official unveiling of Oracle's 11g database and a look at its new features, pricing and availability information was pretty thin on the ground. All the vendor would confirm is that the Linux version of 11g will ship this quarter, probably in August. July 11, 12:37 p.m. PDT Dell will sell Linux on PCs outside of U.S. Dell plans to sell computers with preinstalled Linux outside the United States as well as offer the Ubuntu Linux distribution to small business customers. July 9, 6:12 a.m. PDT Novell offers Linux service pack Looking to bolster Linux in enterprise environments, Novell is offering its first service pack for Suse Linux Enterprise 10, with capabilities for new quad-core processors. The company also announced Monday commercial availability plans for Suse Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack. June 18, 3:45 p.m. PDT Novell to release SMB suite by September Novell will release its first desktop-and-server suite for small businesses in September, an offering clearly aimed at taking market share from rival and sometime partner Microsoft. June 14, 9:07 a.m. PDT Red Hat simplifies pricing on SaaS-based system monitoring Red Hat has changed the pricing model for its SaaS-based system monitoring and added support for more software packages, the company said on Wednesday. June 13, 2:20 p.m. PDT Mobile Linux group releases first specs The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum planned to release its first mobile phone specifications on Monday, in hopes of encouraging more applications for Linux phones. June 11, 5:56 a.m. PDT Xandros CEO doesn’t agree that Linux violates patents Xandros CEO Andreas Typaldos said Thursday his company did not agree that its Linux distribution violates any Microsoft patents nor did the software giant ask Xandros to do so as part of the patent cross-licensing deal the two signed Monday. June 8, 9:47 a.m. PDT 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Simon Crosby XenSource is not only the leader of the open source Xen project, but also the maker of a proprietary server virtualization platform based on the Xen hypervisor. The community side of the house, led by founder and Xen Project Lead Ian Pratt, strives to be completely supportive of everyone in the Xen community, even those who may compete with XenSource's commercial offerings. June 8, 3:00 a.m. PDT Novell says it benefits from Microsoft IP deal Think Novell is sending more money to Microsoft under the vendors' intellectual property agreement than the other way around? Think again, a Novell executive said at the TechEd 2007 conference in Orlando, Fla., on Monday. June 5, 5:00 a.m. PDT Xandros joins Novell in licensing Microsoft IP Microsoft has signed another Linux distributor to a patent-licensing and collaboration deal similar to the one it struck with Novell last year. June 4, 7:59 a.m. PDT Novell says Microsoft deal is good for Linux business Novell on Wednesday said its deal with Microsoft is helping drive gains in its Linux business, but danced around questions concerning how that deal may be altered given coming changes in open source licensing.Novell made the comments during its quarterly earnings call with financial analysts where the company reported nearly a $2.2 million loss in income during its fiscal second quarter. May 31, 9:49 a.m. PDT TurboLinux Wizpy to launch worldwide in June The TurboLinux Wizpy, a multimedia player that contains a PC-bootable version of the Linux operating system, will go on sale worldwide in June. May 31, 4:42 a.m. PDT Microsoft, Novell defend partnership, promise details Executives from Microsoft and Novell defended their controversial business agreement to collaborate and promote integration between Windows and Novell's SUSE Linux operating systems on Wednesday, saying that Microsoft's sales organization is now the biggest channel for SUSE Linux and that the deal will help, not hurt the prospects of Linux in the enterprise. May 24, 5:00 a.m. PDT Dell launches three Ubuntu Linux PCs Dell will officially launch its first three consumer PCs running the Ubuntu 7.04 Linux OS on Thursday, two desktops and an Inspiron E1505n notebook PC. May 24, 4:14 a.m. PDT Ubuntu founder: Microsoft is our patent pal Microsoft is not the real patent threat Linux and open source developers should be worried about, said Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth. In fact, the software giant will itself be fighting against the software patents system within a few years, Shuttleworth predicted. May 23, 8:16 a.m. PDT Linux users say 'Sue me first, Microsoft' In an unconventional request, some users of Linux and other open-source software are inviting Microsoft to sue them. May 22, 4:40 a.m. PDT Fast IBM Power6 chip enters slowing Unix market Facing a slowing Unix market, IBM released its Power6 processor on Monday, its fastest chip yet for high-end servers. The chip runs at double the speed of its Power5 line, but uses the same amount of power. May 21, 9:03 a.m. PDT Microsoft's patent claims jar open-source backers Microsoft Corp.'s bold patent claims against Linux could complicate the company's efforts to get along better with the open-source community and develop more interoperable products. May 17, 9:59 a.m. PDT Hilf: Microsoft won't sue over Linux, for now Microsoft ignited hostility following its assertion in Fortune magazine on Monday that Linux and other open-source software infringe on 235 of the company's patents. The software giant, which signed a controversial patent cross-licensing deal with Novell last November, is encouraging other companies to reach licensing agreements to resolve intellectual property claims. It has made companies nervous about whether they could eventually be targeted by lawsuits from Microsoft. May 17, 7:49 a.m. PDT Trimming the Longhorn, threatening the Penguin Some weeks, the dog is man's best and fuzziest friend; others he's chasing you around the yard and snapping at your heinie — I'm having a real "Tom and Jerry" moment here. May 16, 3:00 a.m. PDT Samba developers quash serious bug Users of the open-source Samba software are being urged to patch their code following the discovery of a critical bug in the file-and-print software. May 15, 4:28 a.m. PDT Players in potential patent battle hunker down With lines in the sand being drawn in Microsoft's beef over open source and alleged patent infringement, potential major players in this battle are keeping their cards close to the vest at this juncture. May 14, 4:45 p.m. PDT Microsoft demands royalties for open source software Microsoft reportedly wants open source software users to pay royalties on 235 alleged patent violations. May 14, 4:19 a.m. PDT Ubuntu plans mobile Linux version Ubuntu Linux developers plan to extend its open source software development to handheld Internet-enabled devices. May 7, 9:37 a.m. PDT Dell joins Microsoft, Novell in Linux collaboration Dell is backing the Windows-Linux partnership set up by Microsoft and Novell. As part of the deal, Dell will buy Suse Linux Enterprise Server certificates from Microsoft for corporate customers that are not already using Linux, the computer maker said Monday. May 7, 4:07 a.m. PDT Dell embraces Ubuntu Responding to user pressure, Dell confirmed it will preinstall the Ubuntu distribution of the Linux operating system on some of its computers. May 1, 7:34 a.m. PDT Red Hat chides Oracle over Linux Oracle's venture into the Linux market was called "a bit disingenuous" by a Red Hat executive speaking at the MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, Calif. on Tuesday. April 24, 2:48 p.m. PDT In Brief: Red Hat creates global services center in India Red Hat has set up a global services center in India that will assist its customers with deploying open-source technologies. The center will hire about 100 staff over the next 12 months. April 19, 7:27 a.m. PDT Linux Foundation updates Linux Standard Base The Linux Foundation updated its Linux Standard Base (LSB) server specification Monday to include new automated testing toolkits to make it easier to develop applications for different distributions of the open-source operating system. April 9, 8:27 a.m. PDT Closing a chapter of open source By now you will have heard the news: InfoWorld has closed down its print edition and moved to a Web-only model. Over the coming weeks and months, InfoWorld will continue to evolve to take better advantage of the online medium. You can expect many changes -- some subtle, others less so. For example, this will be the last edition of Open Enterprise. April 9, 3:00 a.m. PDT Linux Foundation announces new board The recently formed Linux Foundation, a merger of two Linux evangelizing industry consortiums, named its 15-person board of directors Tuesday. Along with executives from IT firms, the board also features the founder of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, a leading end-user of open-source software, and a lawyer whose work is focused on consortiums and standards development. March 27, 9:59 a.m. PST Mr. Gates, tear down this wall IBM's latest filing in the SCO case looks particularly damning; it may finally be curtains for SCO. But even if the judge dismisses the suit tomorrow, Linux customers won't be able to rest easy. As Bruce Perens reminds us, the Microsoft/Novell partnership has brought a host of new intellectual property issues to bear. And so, the cold war between Microsoft and open source software lumbers on into another year. March 26, 3:00 a.m. PST Dell takes baby steps toward Linux Thanks to Dell, soon it will be easier than ever to order a brand-new desktop or notebook PC with Linux pre-installed. But whether Dell's new program will really have an impact on the rate of Linux adoption in the enterprise is unclear at best. March 19, 3:00 a.m. PST Linux rising at IBM Scott Handy started with IBM in 1983 as a systems engineer and did the scenic tour of the company’s sales, marketing, and strategic planning operations. Through the years, he’s covered large accounts, channels, small and midsize business, and IBM solutions for Windows NT, Sun Solaris, and OS/2 Warp. March 19, 3:00 a.m. PST Red Hat release renews OS debate As Red Hat prepares to launch the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system on Wednesday, the question is again being asked whether a robust and feature-laden operating system is really needed for some computing situations. March 14, 9:01 a.m. PST IBM's Handy on managing Linux Scott Handy started with IBM in 1983 as a systems engineer and went on to sales, marketing, and strategy positions covering large accounts, channels, small and medium business, and IBM products for Windows NT, Sun Solaris and OS/2 Warp. Now as vice president for Linux and open source he is one of the main public faces articulating IBM's open-source strategy. IDG News Service Senior Writer Elizabeth Montalbano caught up with Handy at the sidelines of the recent LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit in New York. He talked about how the industry giant manages to support a vast product portfolio for Linux and open-source initiatives. March 12, 6:09 a.m. PST Are you an open source user or joiner? In my previous column, I touched on the issue of what constitutes an open-source vendor. Ask Andy Astor that question, and his answer is a shrug. "Honestly," he says, "who cares?" To Astor, there are really two broad categories of companies with respect to their relationship to open-source code. Some are users. Others are joiners. March 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Red Hat looks to entice developers Red Hat and Exadel are joining forces to try to make the open source Red Hat platform more of a destination for software developers. March 5, 5:00 a.m. PST Dell to Linux users: Not so fast If you're looking for a new Linux-equipped Dell laptop or desktop from the PC vendor, you may be waiting a while. February 27, 3:47 p.m. PST U.K. launches open-source policy group A new U.K. think tank launched on Monday will analyze how open-source software can be used in government and the private sector. February 26, 11:01 a.m. PST At 25, Sun struggles to reinvent itself Developers by the thousands flocked to the International Convention Center in Hyderabad, India last week as Sun Microsystems kicked off the second leg of its world-spanning series of Tech Days conferences. The theme of the event was "shape your future" -- and indeed, no slogan could be more appropriate for Sun, its developers, and its partners. February 26, 3:05 a.m. PST Dell users demand Linux on laptops The new team of leaders at Dell is weighing a request to give customers the option to purchase PCs with the Linux OS, instead of the default Windows, after thousands of users voted for that idea on a company blog. February 22, 8:44 a.m. PST Wind River acquires real-time Linux from FSMLabs Wind River Systems has acquired technology that lets it provide an embedded Linux OS for devices that need responses in real time. February 20, 3:09 p.m. PST Red Hat opens support and R&D center in Serbia Red Hat, in collaboration with IBM, opened a support and research facility in Vrsac, Serbia, to serve customers in South Eastern Europe. February 20, 8:09 a.m. PST Virtualization: Linux's killer app I came away from InfoWorld's Virtualization Executive Forum last week with two conclusions. First, server virtualization is definitely a big deal. This time last year, customers and ISVs still seemed to be struggling to come to terms with this new approach to deploying and managing servers; today it's full speed ahead. And, second, nowhere is virtualization hotter than in the Linux market. February 19, 3:00 a.m. PST Novell, Microsoft provide virtualization roadmap Microsoft and Novell will enable virtualization for each other's server operating systems as part of the companies' ongoing alliance to make Windows and Linux more interoperable. February 12, 1:18 p.m. PST Zero-day flaw in Solaris allows remote attacks Security experts are warning of a zero-day vulnerability with Sun Microsystems' Solaris 10 and 11 OSes. February 12, 8:26 a.m. PST IBM pushes desktop Linux with Open Client IBM on Monday introduced new services, dubbed Open Client, designed to make it easier for customers to run its Lotus collaboration software on a mixture of Windows and Linux desktop operating systems. February 12, 7:49 a.m. PST Linux and Vista users share driver pain Customers are getting annoyed. They spent good money on the latest and greatest PC peripherals, only to find out that the hardware is only partially supported on their operating system of choice. Without the kernel drivers necessary to power them, some of the best features of the new toys are going unused. February 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Turbolinux preps multimedia player with bootable Linux Japan's Turbolinux will begin selling its Wizpy Linux-based multimedia player in February. As a bonus, the device can also be used to boot a PC into the Linux OS, allowing users to access their files in their own working environment on almost any PC. January 31, 4:35 a.m. PST Foundation proves Linux is big business What do you get if you cross an open source development consortium with an organization that promotes free standards? Answer: You get a Linux advocacy group. Or so it seems. January 29, 3:00 a.m. PST Cellphone Linux group launched Six of the biggest names in cellular telephony have made good on a promise from last year and announced a new foundation to push Linux standardization and adoption on mobile phones. January 26, 5:22 a.m. PST Oracle introduces Linux management software Oracle is making further inroads into the Linux space, this time in providing management tools for the open-source operating system, after its surprise October announcement of full global support for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution. January 22, 8:20 a.m. PST OSDL, Free Standards Group to merge The two main evangelizers of the Linux operating system, Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and the Free Standards Group (FSG) are merging to form the Linux Foundation. January 22, 5:39 a.m. PST Cisco admits iPhone license violation Cisco Systems plans to resolve a single license compliance issue regarding the use of Linux in one of its iPhones, the company wrote in a blog posting, but a researcher contends that Cisco has more work to do. January 22, 4:27 a.m. PST The smart business of diversity Carly Fiorina served as CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005, the first woman to run a Fortune 20 company. After she was ousted, along with a $21 million exit package, Fiorina did what a lot of us would do if we had millions of dollars in the bank and some time on our hands: She wrote a book. In Tough Choices, published in October, Fiorina talks about rising to the top of a male-dominated culture. Fiorina spoke with InfoWorld correspondent Carmen Nobel for our upcoming feature on the issues women face in IT. January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Seven ways Solaris can beat Linux At a recent Sun Microsystems press event, Sun execs talked up plans to market the company's Solaris Unix OS to startups and small-to-midsize businesses. "Open source is what [customers] want to go after," said Peder Ulander, Sun's vice president of software marketing. "It's not so much Linux. Linux just happens to embody open source." January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Adobe delivers Flash Player 9 for Linux Adobe Systems has released Flash Player 9 for Linux, allowing users of the open-source operating system to create or use multimedia applications with the latest version of Flash. January 17, 4:13 a.m. PST Microsoft names three takers for its Linux support Two banks and an insurance company have accepted Microsoft's offer of technical support for Novell Inc.'s Suse Enterprise Linux. December 20, 11:04 a.m. PST 2006 Year in Reviews: Platforms Novell’s Suse Linux 10 was the landmark operating system launch of the year, giving us a bigger and badder Linux server and a startlingly smooth Linux desktop. We also got good looks at Microsoft Vista and Windows Longhorn betas, and at BEA’s venerable WebLogic 9.1. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST What does 2007 hold for open source? I couldn't have an easier time playing fortune-teller this year. While some segments of the IT market might see the future as a wide-open plain, for the open source community, 2007 is shaping up to be a year for settling unfinished business. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST Novell appoints new European chief Novell has appointed a new president for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), the company said Thursday. December 14, 4:42 a.m. PST Update: Ingres goes with Infor as first ERP partner Open-source database vendor Ingres Corp. Wednesday named Infor Global Solutions as its first ERP (enterprise resource planning) partner since Ingres spun off from CA Inc. over a year ago. December 13, 4:04 p.m. PST Non-profit OSDL refocuses Linux efforts, loses CEO Open Source Development Labs Inc., the nonprofit Linux development consortium, has cut its staff and will focus on a narrower range of activities. December 4, 2:36 p.m. PST Microvell’s big chill Microsoft has intentionally rendered unsafe all but one path to heterogeneity, that being the use of Novell’s SLES (Suse Linux Enterprise Server) in networks with Windows. By immunizing Novell against future intellectual property actions, Microsoft tacitly notified other players in commercialized open source that Microsoft sets the rules for Windows interoperability from now on. November 29, 3:00 a.m. PST Trolltech aims to speed Linux phone development Trolltech is offering a suite of products designed to make it easier for mobile phone makers to develop Linux-based smart phones. November 28, 5:16 a.m. PST Perens: GPL v3 is the answer Let the spin control begin. In an open letter issued last week, Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian attempted to distance his company from Microsoft's claims that open source software, including the Linux kernel, infringes on Microsoft intellectual property. November 27, 3:00 a.m. PST Linspire picks up distributor for Middle East, Africa Linspire has signed up a company headed by a former Microsoft executive to distribute its desktop Linux operating system in the Middle East and Africa. November 22, 5:52 a.m. PST > Platforms > Operating systems |
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