Turbolinux, a Japanese seller of the open-source operating system, bridges a philosophical divide by licensing Microsoft technology for playing digital music and video.
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Siemens Venture Capital leads a round that delivers $7 million to the company that makes Linux for embedded computing devices.
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The auto parts retailer answers the SCO Group's legal push against big Linux users by asking to postpone the copyright violation lawsuit against it.
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In an ideal world, all your code is packaged into a universal install script, with dependency checking, updating, and logging services handled automatically. Conflicts between resources required by different applications are resolved according to predefined policies. Site-specific configuration changes are automatically applied as part of the unattended installation, and tests are run across the environment to confirm that everything is good to go. This article shows you how the general tenets of autonomic computing are applied to software installation.
According to Sun President Jonathan Schwartz, Red Hat's enterprise Linux offering is a proprietary fork of Linux. No surprise, Red Hat and even Linux founder Linus Torvalds see it differently.
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Xandros, having made moves into the enterprise desktop market with the release of its Linux business desktop, is following up with a business desktop management program.
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The Internet Systems Consortium begins selling commercial support for the widely used but low-profile open-source product.
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Linux may be entrenched in the data center, but it will need some sprucing up before the upstart operating system grabs a significant spot on desktop PCs.
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Software maker NeTraverse hopes to eases problems for businesses migrating to Linux with its Win4Lin products.
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A German court lends some weight to the important open-source license, the legal foundation of Linux but an agreement that hasn't been interpreted by courts.
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BayStar Capital says its move to retrieve a $20 million investment in the SCO Group was part of an effort to induce major changes at the Linux litigator--including new senior management and a withdrawal from the Unix product business.
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The Linux company asks a judge to let its copyright-related suit go ahead, and not wait until a related case between IBM and SCO is resolved.
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Open Source Risk Management will sell insurance against Linux-related copyright infringement suits starting Monday, though an analyst says the firm probably won't be overrun with clients.
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BayStar Capital is seeking to get back the $20 million it invested in the SCO Group, raising issues for SCO's expensive and controversial legal campaign that argues Linux infringes its Unix copyrights.
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Following European court rulings in its trademark battle with Microsoft, the software maker renames its open-source operating system.
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PeopleSoft Inc. will support Red Hat Linux for PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne, meaning that customers who choose to run their applications on Linux can reduce their total cost of ownership by using an open source, secure, and stable operating system, the company says.
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Citing delays in the discovery process of its $5 billion lawsuit with IBM, The SCO Group has asked a Utah court to move back the trial date in the case by five months, to mid-September 2005.
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SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- Linux users and distributors were divided on the question of whether Linux distributions should become simpler or more complex during a panel discussion on the future of Linux cluster distributions that took place here at the ClusterWorld Conference & Expo here Tuesday.
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The desktop Linux vendor will unveil its new moniker April 14 after courts in the Netherlands, Sweden and elsewhere ruled that its name, which will stay the same stateside, infringed on Microsoft's Windows trademark and would have to be changed.
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Innoopract on Tuesday will ship a version of its W4T (Worldwide Web Windowing Toolkit) Eclipse Plug-In development tool that adds Linux as a development platform.
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