Linux Compatible - General (Page 27)

SnapGear claims to ship first Linux 2.6 product

General 8076 Published 2003-09-30 12:25 by Philipp Esselbach 0

In a sign that the Linux 2.6 kernel is nearing its final release date, Australian embedded Linux vendor SnapGear Inc. said on Monday that it had become the first vendor to include Linux 2.6 in a commercial product.

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SuSE plans longer Linux cycle

General 8076 Published 2003-09-30 04:32 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Linux distributor SuSE said last week that future versions of the open source operating system may arrive at a slower rate, a move designed to increase stability for users.

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AMD updates design for Linux PDA

General 8076 Published 2003-09-29 15:17 by Philipp Esselbach 0

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has begun showing an updated reference design for a personal digital assistant (PDA) running the Linux operating system to hardware makers, according to a company executive.

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IBM Files New Claims Against SCO in Linux Case

General 8076 Published 2003-09-26 14:32 by Philipp Esselbach 0

International Business Machines Corp. has filed new counterclaims against SCO Group Inc. in the closely watched case involving the Linux operating system, according to a memo sent to the IBM sales force.

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NTT unit joins Linux group

General 8076 Published 2003-09-26 14:18 by Philipp Esselbach 0

A division of the Japanese telecom giant joins Linux advocacy organization OSDL and says it will further invest in the open-source operating system.

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SCO suit is not frivolous

General 8076 Published 2003-09-26 14:18 by Philipp Esselbach 1

The open-source community takes the SCO suit extremely seriously, because it seriously threatens a very important part of the community.

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Commentary: HP gives Linux a boost

General 8076 Published 2003-09-26 04:38 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Hewlett-Packard's simple indemnification strategy removes a critical risk and clears the path for customers to run Linux on HP gear.

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Handicapping SCO versus Linux

General 8076 Published 2003-09-25 12:35 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Intellectual property attorney Stuart Meyer says the issues in the Linux code dispute between the SCO Group and IBM may be thornier than commonly assumed.

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HP to indemnify Linux customers

General 8076 Published 2003-09-24 03:59 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The company plans to announce Wednesday that it will indemnify its Linux customers against potential legal actions by SCO Group.

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eWeek: Sun Embraces Open-Source Database

General 8076 Published 2003-09-17 13:59 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Sun Microsystems Inc. is standardizing its software products on an open-source database to store and manage non-relational data.

Sleepycat Software Inc. will announce on Wednesday that Sun, of Palo Alto, Calif., has chosen Sleepycat's Berkeley DB database as the embedded database within its software line. The database is incorporated in key components of the Sun Java Enterprise System, formerly known as Project Orion, and the Sun Java Enterprise Desktop System, formerly known as Project Mad Hatter, both launched on Tuesday.

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linuX-gamers.net your linux gaming resource

General 8076 Published 2003-09-17 12:39 by Philipp Esselbach 0

A new Linux gaming website is online

Open source wireless tools emerge

General 8076 Published 2003-09-15 18:18 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The wireless development landscape differs from the wired world in a number of ways. For one thing, the dominance of handheld device manufacturers and proprietary OS makers has meant that open source projects for wireless connectivity have been slow to take off. But now this sector is showing some signs of life. This article explains both the delays and the brightening future.

Open source: A nonproprietary world

General 8076 Published 2003-09-14 05:07 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Open-source software has underlying source code that may be freely seen, changed and redistributed--in sharp contrast with proprietary software from companies such as Microsoft or Oracle.

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Novell to drop ZENworks from Linux tool bundle

General 8076 Published 2003-09-13 04:34 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Novell said it plans to use newly acquired systems management tools instead of including its own ZENworks technology in a Linux software package that's due to go into open beta-testing next month.

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MandrakeSoft Introduces Ads to Mandrake Linux 9.2 Download Edition

General 8076 Published 2003-09-12 07:52 by Philipp Esselbach 0

OSNews reports that MandrakeSoft S.A. will introduce ads to Mandrake Linux 9.2 Download Edition

DB2 ICE sets TPC-H performance standard on Linux

General 8076 Published 2003-09-12 07:48 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Interesting results of the recent TPC-H benchmark performance testing on Clustered and non-Clustered 100GB and 300GB configurations. It appears that the IBM DB2 Integrated Cluster Environment (DB2 ICE) for Linux is heads above the rest.

Torvalds to SCO: Negotiate what?

General 8076 Published 2003-09-11 11:31 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The war of words between The SCO Group Inc. and the Linux community escalated this week in a flurry of open letters, the latest from Linux creator Linus Torvalds.

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IBM bundles up with Chinese Linux company

General 8076 Published 2003-09-11 11:30 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Big Blue expands its geographic ambitions for Linux, signing a deal to bundle a version of its database software with a distributor of the open-source operating system in China.

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Inside the GNOME 2.4 Desktop & Developer Platform

General 8076 Published 2003-09-10 13:10 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Ars Technica has posted an article on GNOME 2.4

eWeek: Will Linux Luminary Shred SCOs Unix Claims?

General 8076 Published 2003-09-09 03:57 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Linux luminary Eric S. Raymond is taking the fight with The SCO Group right back to the basics: he has developed a utility known as a comparator that looks for common code segments in large source trees and which, on an Athlon 1.8 GHz box, has an effective comparison rate of over 55,000 lines per second.

Raymond, the president of the Open Source Initiative, declined for legal reasons to say whether he had developed the comparator specifically to compare older Unix code to Linux so as to be able to refute SCO's claims that the 2.4 kernel and beyond contain proprietary Unix code.

But he did admit that "I am grinning a grin that should frighten the thieves and liars at SCO out of a week's sleep."

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