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Google's Android code deleted from Linux kernel |
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 04:43 |
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After removing Google's Android driver code from the Linux kernel, Novell Fellow and Linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman has argued that the mobile OS is incompatible with the project's main tree. Kroah-Hartman deleted the Android drivers on December 11 - Android code is no more as of version 2.6.33 of the kernel release - and yesterday, with a post to his personal blog, he explained the move in detail.
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Sold out: Microsoft's Linux business is booming |
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 04:39 |
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The SD Times reports that Microsoft has sold nearly all of its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) support coupons. Microsoft purchased the $240 million worth of coupons from Novell as part of patent indemnification deal. According to Microsoft, a total of 475 customers have used an undisclosed number of the coupons. Based on those figures, each of these customers has bought, on average, just over half a million dollars worth of coupons.
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Symbian OS Takes on Android, Linux in Massive Open Source Move |
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 04:35 |
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In a dramatic strategic move, the Symbian Foundation has made source code for the world’s most widely used mobile OS completely free and completely open. In addition, the Foundation says devices for the North American market — the only developed market Symbian hasn’t cracked — are on their way soon, with a partnership with Qualcomm Inc. helping to raise the platform’s visibility in the big domestic CDMA carriers like Verizon Wireless and Sprint-Nextel Corp..
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2009's Five Most Popular & Important Linux Stories |
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Tuesday, 05 January 2010 16:47 |
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Before jumping into this, let me say that's what popular isn't the same thing as what's important. So, I'm giving you a twofer list. The first is the most popular of my stories, and then there are the stories, which I think are the most important for Linux's future.
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Microsoft/Linux Milestones |
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Tuesday, 15 December 2009 20:51 |
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Microsoft Monday made an historic move by submitting device drivers to the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license. Microsoft has had a checkered past with both Linux and its open source GPL licensing structure, so the move was a jaw dropper. Here is a look at some of the milestones since Microsoft internal memos leaked in 1998 that attacked the open source Linux operating system as it began to pick up steam as an alternative to Windows.
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New Linux kernel boosts graphics support, enhances KVM |
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Saturday, 05 December 2009 12:30 |
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Linus Torvalds announced the release of a stable Linux 2.6.32 kernel. Major additions include kernel-based mode setting (KMS) and 3D graphics support on select Radeon cards, plus new kernel shared memory (KSM) technology for KVM virtualization, power-saving and performance improvements, and a faster "Devtmpfs" boot technology.
Many of the recent Linux kernel releases have focused on filesystems, such as September's Linux 2.6.31, which was notable primarily for adding USB 3.0 support, but also offered a much more robust implementation of the Btrfs filesystem. Before that, Linux 2.6.30 added the NILFS2, EXOFS, and POHMELFS filesystems, and Linux 2.6.29 debuted the embedded-oriented Squashfs filesystem, as well as the first implementation of Btrfs. LINUX NEWS - FULL STORY
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Ubuntu Firefox shuns Google for Yahoo! search |
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Friday, 29 January 2010 02:11 |
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The next release of Ubuntu will scrap Google as the default search engine on its Firefox browser in favor of Yahoo!, thanks to a new revenue-sharing deal between Yahoo! and commercial Ubuntu backer Canonical. With regulators set to approve Yahoo!'s search pact with Microsoft, this means that Redmond will power the future of Firefox on Ubuntu, a combination with decidedly anti-Redmond connotations. The ultimate irony is that Microsoft will essentially be paying people to build a Linux distro.
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Shuttleworth steps down as Ubuntu 10.04 alpha steps up |
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Friday, 18 December 2009 10:11 |
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Canonical announced that Mark Shuttleworth will be stepping down as CEO in March to be replaced by Canonical COO Jane Silber, reports eWEEK. Meanwhile, the Ubuntu project has released its first alpha of Ubuntu 10.04 ("Lucid Lynx"), which speeds boot-time while kissing the GIMP editor goodbye. Ubuntu sponsor Canonical announced the management transition in a call with press and analysts on December 17, writes Darryl Taft in our sister publication eWEEK. After surrendering his CEO title in March, Shuttleworth will continue to focus on specific projects within Canonical, including the company's move to support cloud computing, says the story.
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IBM's newest mainframe is all Linux |
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Thursday, 10 December 2009 04:28 |
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IBM has expanded its server lineup with a new mainframe system designed just for Linux that may be aimed, in particular, at higher-end x86 systems.
The new system uses IBM's specialty Linux processor and runs either Novell SUSE or Red Hat systems. It does not use the mainframe operating system z/OS but includes mainframe management software as well as IBM's z/Virtual Machine system. Together, they constitute the company's latest "solutions edition," or what IBM says are lower-cost, integrated stacks for the mainframe.
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Linux presents a competitor to Chrome OS |
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Thursday, 03 December 2009 07:56 |
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An operating systems war has begun.
The possibility of a series of netbooks available for bargain-basement prices became realistic in the minds of computer buyers because of cloud computing and its lack of hefty hardware requirements.
The war might prove not nearly as bitter as the war waged between avid Windows fans and die-hard Apple supporters, but considering the jabs between Google’s Chrome OS and Jolicloud — a new Ubuntu Linux-based cloud operating system for netbooks — the battle looks like it could get pretty heated. LINUX NEWS - FULL STORY
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