The German Linux distributor expands its consumer-desktop focus, even as it continues to sell software for high-end servers.
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Big Blue puts more muscle behind its effort to improve Linux for its Power family of processors, adding dozens of programmers to Big Blue's Linux Technology Center.
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OSNews has published a new article: Why Linux is Ready for the Desktop
What compels some people to give their work away? Harvard Business School professor Siobhan O'Mahony discusses her research into foundations formed around three open-source software projects: Debian, GNOME and Apache.
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Microsoft and Sun Microsystems finally have something in common: they both have signed Unix licensing agreements with The SCO Group in the last year. The licensing agreements, which cover source code and patents contained in SCO's Unix operating system will net SCO a total of $13.25 million in 2003, according to documents filed by SCO with the Securities and Exchange Commission this week.
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Federal agencies, state and local governments, and other public-sector administrations in Germany interested in migrating their computer systems to open source software, particularly the Linux operating system, can now turn to a set of guidelines for support.
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PORTLAND-The use of open-source software is alive and well and growing among government agencies, including the U.S. Census Bureau.
In an address at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (Oscon) here on Thursday titled "Open Source in Government," Lisa Wolfisch Nyman, a senior Internet technology architect at the Bureau, said the issue of open source and government was first raised at Oscon in 1999, where many public sector employees said they were forbidden from using open source.
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In an address at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (Oscon) here on Thursday titled "Open Source in Government," Lisa Wolfisch Nyman, a senior Internet technology architect at the Bureau, said the issue of open source and government was first raised at Oscon in 1999, where many public sector employees said they were forbidden from using open source.
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PORTLAND, Ore.-The contentious issue of the SCO Group's lawsuit against IBM and its claims that the Linux operating system is an unauthorized derivative of Unix, to which SCO owns the rights, reared its ugly head at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (Oscon) here on Wednesday.
In a late afternoon panel discussion titled "The IP Wars: SCO Versus Linux," moderator Chris DiBona, vice president and founder of Damage Studios, said the topic essentially involves a "SCO versus everybody else talk," adding that the lawsuit was probably brought for financial reasons as IBM is a player with a lot of money.
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In a late afternoon panel discussion titled "The IP Wars: SCO Versus Linux," moderator Chris DiBona, vice president and founder of Damage Studios, said the topic essentially involves a "SCO versus everybody else talk," adding that the lawsuit was probably brought for financial reasons as IBM is a player with a lot of money.
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Embedded Linux seller MontaVista Software has opened an office in Korea, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company said Thursday.
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Sun, the No. 1 seller of Unix servers, licenses broader rights to Unix and gets the option to buy a stake in the company that owns those rights.
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The Japanese government is considering using the free Linux software program when it upgrades its computer data files for public servants in 2005.
Japan has chosen a proposal submitted by a group made up of Fujitsu, IBM Japan and Oki Electric Industry Co. The companies suggest using Linux to manage salary and other personnel data for the nation's 800,000 central government employees, government official Masanobu Arao said Wednesday.
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Japan has chosen a proposal submitted by a group made up of Fujitsu, IBM Japan and Oki Electric Industry Co. The companies suggest using Linux to manage salary and other personnel data for the nation's 800,000 central government employees, government official Masanobu Arao said Wednesday.
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CNET News reports that IBM expands their Linux support
The Linux seller hopes to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection by the end of the year.
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Linux creator Linus Torvalds sounds off on SCO Group's lawsuit against IBM, intellectual property in the open-source world and the future of the Linux operating system.
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Saw over at PCLinuxOnline:
FootNotes has posted a listing of major changes in Nautilus since 2.2
AMD Board send words that ClusterVision will install the first AMD Opteron Processor based supercomputer
Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced a new low-end desktop PC designed for small businesses that features a version of the Linux operating system, the company said Wednesday.
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MontaVista Software, a company specializing in Linux for "embedded" computing devices such as network equipment, hopes to join the newly announced Consumer Electronics Linux Forum, the company said Wednesday.
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Although Linus Torvalds didn't meet a goal to release the upcoming version of the operating system in June, the Linux leader says a test version could come as soon as next week.
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