Ownership of Unix copyright headed to trial

The fate of ownership of the Unix computer operating system is heading to trial after a federal appeals court reversed a judge's decision that granted the copyright to Novell Inc.

Netbooks: XP now, but Windows 7 later

Netbooks, the little laptops geared to mainly Web surfing and e-mail, have tiny keyboards, small screens — and the Windows XP operating system on many of them now.

Verizon Wireless to introduce Linux phones

Verizon Wireless is backing a free operating system that competes with programs from Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. and expects it to become the "preferred" software on its network.

Wal-Mart Ends Test of Linux in Stores

Computers that run the Linux operating system instead of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows didn't attract enough attention from Wal-Mart customers, and the chain has stopped selling them in stores, a spokeswoman said Monday.

Palm to Develop Linux-Based Products

Smart phone maker Palm Inc. said Tuesday it will use a new platform based on Linux to help the company compete better.

Red Hat Launches New Linux System

Red Hat Inc. has unveiled the latest version of its Linux operating system as the open-source software company continues to combat Microsoft's market-dominating Windows platform.

India State to Dump Windows for Linux

A southern Indian state plans to switch all school computers from Microsoft Windows to the free Linux operating system, an official said Thursday.

Novell to Release New Linux Distribution

Novell Inc. will start shipping Release 10 of its Suse Linux on Monday, marking the first full new release of Suse Linux since August 2004, according to the company's president and chief executive officer.

SCO Dealt Setback in IBM Linux Lawsuit

A U.S. magistrate has struck down many of the SCO Group Inc.'s claims against IBM Corp., saying the Utah company failed to show its intellectual property was misappropriated when Big Blue donated software code to the freely distributed Linux operating system.

New Version of Ubuntu Software Coming

A new version of the Ubuntu software package, a flavor of the freely distributed Linux operating system, is due out Thursday.

Linux Distributors Unite on Standard

In a move to make the freely distributed Linux operating system a stronger alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows, a group of major Linux distributors announced Friday they have united on a standard set of components for desktop versions of Linux.

Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" is out today, bringing lots of improvements to your favorite Linux distribution. It has a new quick search feature called the HUD, some new privacy settings, a few tweaks to the Unity interface, and more. This release is another "Long Term Suppor …

THE FOUNDER of Linux vendor Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth has questioned whether Red Hat's pricing structure is viable for enterprise cloud deployments. Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution is making a big push into the enterprise and cloud, where it will go head to head with l …

A decade ago, Linux developer Red Hat faced a decision that would make or break the company: whether to stop producing the very product that gave Red Hat its name.

r00tw0rm group of Hackers hack and leak the complete 82.8 MB database from The united nations environment programme (UNEP), which is the voice for the environment in the united nations system. Via a tweet, r00tw0rm shout ,"United nations environment programme

FXI is preparing to launch the Cotton Candy, a tiny computer that looks like a USB thumb drive. The device, which can run either Ubuntu or Android 4.0, has a dual-core 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 CPU, 1GB of RAM, and a Mali 400MP GPU that allows it to decode high-definition video.

  3 weeks before we reported that Symantec releases patch to address pcAnywhere source code exposure, because attackers had obtained the remote access software's source code. But According to H.D.

R&B singer Teyana Taylor was the latest victim of an Internet scandal when a nude photo of her hacked and spread around the Internet. The topless photo and other pictures claiming to be of the "Google Me" singer reportedly appeared online by way of her Yfrog accou …

The Internet could go dark for millions of users as early as March 8 because of a virus that has corrupted computers in more than 100 countries. Last year, authorities in Estonia apprehended six men believed responsible for creating a malicious computer script called th …

Hackers Deface following sites : business.ftc.gov consumer.gov ncpw.gov ftcstaging.mt.fhdbeta.com ncpw.gov consumer.ftc.gov ftcdev.mt.fhdbeta.com Mirror of Defacements :http://zone-h.org/mirror/id/16983974 Mysql Username, Emails and Passwords of all usres leaked by Hac …

Anonymous claim to hack Intelligence Knowledge Network (IKN) Portal of United States Army - ikn.army.mil.

Thanks to Android, Linux is well represented on tablets, but there hasn’t been a free software tablet, without any proprietary bits, until now. The Spark, which will be based on MeeGo and use KDE Plasma for its interface, will be the first free software tablet.

It’s no secret that KDE is not the most popular desktop environment for Linux/Unix users.

Although very controversial and barely edging out Android, GNOME 3 takes our product of the year title for 2011.

Ubuntu, once king of the desktop Linux distributions, has slid into fourth place according to data made available by DistroWatch.

Ubuntu 11.10, codenamed Oneiric Ocelot, prowled out of the development forest earlier this month. In our review of Ubuntu 11.04, released back in April, we took a close look at the strengths and weaknesses of the new Unity shell and compared it with GNOME 3.0.

Recent site breaches like those at Kernel.org and Linux have prompted the Fedora Project to contact users to change their password and SSH public key before November 30 to avoid having their accounts marked as inactive.

Mr. Ritchie, who lived alone, was in frail health in recent years after treatment for prostate cancer and heart disease, said his brother Bill. In the late 1960s and early ’70s, working at Bell Labs, Mr. Ritchie made a pair of lasting contributions to computer science.

Like most Ubuntu updates, version 11.10 isn't a huge overhaul; rather, it improves on the big changes made in 11.04, by cleaning up the Dash, overhauling the Ubuntu Software Center, and bringing in some new default software.

Somehow, giving away a Linux build for free might make Red Hat a boatload of cash. Back in the 1990s, open source software was met with derision from traditional boxed software companies like Microsoft or Adobe.

The Linux kernel was originally created by Linus Torvalds, a Finnish computer science student, and first announced to the world on August 25, 1991—exactly 20 years ago today.

Yesterday, Steve Jobs officially stepped down as CEO of Apple. Today, the Linux kernel turns 20.

Thursday marks 20 years since Linus Torvalds announced on aWeb bulletin board that he'd begun working on a free computer operating system.

Companies and projects focusing on large-scale collaboration might want to start thinking about collaboration in a new way. Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody closed out the second day of LinuxCon North America 2011 with a contrarian look at collaboration.

After a quick summary of some of the major milestones Linux has seen over the last twenty years, he jumped into the heart of his keynote: what’s next? Whitehurst wasted no time in answering this question: “I have no idea.”

For anyone that was doubting Linus Torvalds would finally part ways with the Linux 2.6 kernel series, you lost your bets. On the eve of Memorial Day in the United States and his departure to Japan for LinuxCon, Linus Torvalds just tagged Linux 3.0-rc1 in Git.