Intel, Novell Team to Push Moblin Mobile Linux Platform
no responses - Posted 05.08.09
Intel and Novell have announced plans to extend their existing collaboration around the Moblin open-source Linux mobile Linux platform. - Intel and Novell have announced plans to extend their existing collaboration around the Moblin open-source Linux mobile Linux platform. The two companies signed an agreement outlining their plans for collaboration, ...continue

Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.5 Beta 4
no responses - Posted 04.28.09
Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 brings a variety of new features, including availability in 70 languages, privacy tools such as Private Browsing Mode, support for JSON and Web worker threads, and improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering. Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 has been ...continue

How Will Oracle Handle Sun’s Open-Source Commitments?
1 response - Posted 04.24.09
An open-source community expert isn't convinced that Oracle, the prospective new owner of MySQL, Java and a host of other open-source development projects, will put the same kind of commitment into the community that Sun Microsystems does. - With the April 20 acquisition of Sun Microsystems by ...continue

Oracle Will Permanently Eclipse Sun
no responses - Posted 04.20.09
NEWS ANALYSIS: Oracle's $7.4 billion Sun acquisition will put an end to one of the most successful high-tech companies in Silicon Valley history, and the inspiration for so many enterprise startups that followed in the 1990s and 2000s. But it's a sad day most of all for the open-source community, ...continue

Building a Stronger Foundation for Linux
no responses - Posted 04.16.09
The Linux Foundation and Novell team up to deliver Build Service, which will aid in the creation of software packages for CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, OpenSUSE, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise and Ubuntu. - Recently, I wrote about the need for Linux operating system providers to ...continue

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Covers a Lot of Ground
no responses - Posted 04.10.09
Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 covers a lot of ground, offering organizations a menu of server roles that range from hosting traditional LAMP-type workloads to taking on Microsoft .NET applications and acting as both a host and a guest for server virtualization tasks. While eWEEK Labs found that SLES ...continue

Linux Foundation Takes Reins of Moblin Project from Intel
no responses - Posted 04.02.09
The Linux Foundation, the organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, announces it will host the Moblin project, an open Linux-based mobile project started by Intel. - The Linux Foundation, the organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, has announced it will host the Moblin project, ...continue

Xandros Presto Beta Brings Linux Instant-Boot Capability to Windows-Based Systems, eWEEK Labs Finds
no responses - Posted 03.29.09
One of the main attractions of Linux-based netbooks is their ability to boot up almost instantly and provide quick access to Web browsers and other core applications. But what if you could give the same kind of instant-on functionality to Windows notebooks (especially older ones)? That's the idea behind Xandros ...continue