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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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INSURANCE giant Allianz Australia expects to save more than $1 million by switching from Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Linux for key applications.

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Internet search giant Google has lifted the lid on its operating system, known as Chrome OS. The free and open source system is initially aimed at low-cost netbooks and does away with many of the features of a traditional program.

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Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, was officially released last month. In this comprehensive review, Ars takes you under the surface for an in-depth look at the new features and major architectural changes.

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Ubuntu Koala vs. Windows Seven

I upgraded to both on one machine each. Before going into the pros and cons of each, I better tell the makeup of each machine I upgraded: Windows 7: A Dell 755 Optiplex. Basic stock, additional media card reader, and extra RAM. Networked. Running XP Service Pack 3

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The second poorest country of the Americas now has one of the best software solutions for displaying agricultural data in the western hemisphere.

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The GNOME desktop environment will get its first major version update since 2002 with the upcoming release of GNOME 3.0. Although the 3.0 release was previously planned for March, it has been pushed back to September 2010.

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There may be no single organization which runs more Linux systems than Google. But the kernel development community knows little about how Google uses Linux and what sort of problems are encountered there.

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It supports Windows, Linux, and Macintosh operating systems, will retail for $74.99, and is not a joke.

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Red Hat has announced the general availability of its new Enterprise Server Virtualization solution. It includes virtualization management tools and a standalone hypervisor based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and KVM.

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Cloud management dominates the theme for Landscape 1.4 with new features that allow you to manage your private Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) as easily as you manage your instances on Amazon EC2.

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Need a Dock on the Linux Side? Try Gnome-Do.

So you like your docks on XP/Vista and Mac OS? Well, as usually, Linux has their own that allows for a large amount of fine-tuning. Gnome Do (http://do.davebsd.com/) is first and foremost a launcher application for Linux.

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I can answer his question at the end in regards to why Windows is not using VirtualBox, VMWare, or something similar...$$$$. They are pouring money into their virtualization solution, hoping to pull some VM users.

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Virtualize on Your Desktop With Virtual Box

So often, I could be working on any number of machines. Primarily at work, I use Windows XP, although I will probably upgrade to Windows 7 in the next few weeks. On my Dell Latitude 2100 I dual boot between XP and Ubuntu 9.10 UNR.

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Hulu on Thursday launched a Linux version of Hulu Desktop and added several publisher tools. The additions are part of Hulu Labs, a section on the site launched in May that provides sneak peaks at upcoming material.

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The Linux® technology, development model, and community have all been game-changing influences on the IT industry, and all we can really do is stand back and look at it all, happy to have been along for the ride for developerWorks' first 10 years.

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I've looked at hundreds of Linux distributions over the years. Some of them have been awful. Many have been OK. Few have been great. Based on my early look at Karmic Koala, Ubuntu 9.10, I think we've got a very strong Linux desktop distribution coming down the way.

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360,000 IBM workers have been told to stop using Microsoft Office and switch to the Open Office-based software Symphony.

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Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin issued a scathing condemnation of Microsoft's recent attempts to unload Linux-related patents to patent trolls. He calls for the company to "stop secretly attacking Linux" and compete on the basis of quality rather than FUD.

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openSUSE 11.2 will be released in two months, but the recently released openSUSE 11.1 KDE4 Reloaded images give us a good preview of the upcoming 11.2 version.

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Microsoft (MSFT) has confirmed the authenticity of a controversial set of training slides that it prepared to train Best Buy (BBY) employees in what the software giant calls "the important differences between Linux computers and Windows computers."

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Best Buy told to misrepresent Linux. Microsoft has been sending Best Buy retail staff "training" material that deliberately attacks and in some cases distorts Linux, according to a leak from an anonymous Best Buy employee.

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Novell has been locked in a legal battle with The SCO Group over ownership of the copyright. SCO said the ruling paves the way for resumption of the court case.

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Dell conquers Europe with its Ubuntu netbooks, enters the Netherlands

With their new Latitude 2100 laptops, Dell is finally allowing Dutch consumers to pick Ubuntu as pre-installed operating system for their netbooks. Update: And it looks like Belgian customers can enjoy this deal too.

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Sixteen years ago today, Ian Murdock announced the "imminent completion of a brand-new Linux release". The release was to be called the Debian Linux Release and was the start of one of the most popular community based distributions of Linux.

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Once a faraway problem, an important barrier in disk storage is fast becoming a reality: the venerable master boot record (MBR) partitioning scheme can't fully handle disks larger than 2TB.

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