March
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Mar 29, 2012
Red Hat: The first billion dollar Linux company has arrived
Red Hat didn’t just break a billion dollars in annual earnings, it smashed its way pass a billion bucks with a fiscal year revenue of $1.13 billion, up 25% year-over-year. read more...
The benefits and risks of open source licensing
In the rush to bring a product to market, hurried software developers can run afoul of important open source software licensing rules. read more...
Mar 27, 2012
Say hello to Canonical's new Linux desktop: Ubuntu 12.04 beta review
If you like Unity, Ubuntu Linux’s unique GNOME-based desktop, you’re going to love Canonical’s Ubuntu 12.04, Precise Pangolin. read more...
Amazon EC2 cloud is made up of almost half-a-million Linux servers
Recent research indicates that Amazon’s EC2 cloud is made up of almost half-a-million servers–each of them running a variation of Red Hat Linux for their base operating system. read more...
Mar 22, 2012
Oracle's Google Android patent lawsuit cut down to size
Instead of billions, Oracle will be lucky to get above $100-million in its Java patent lawsuit against Google Android. read more...
Linux guru: re-merging of Android into kernel eases sysdev a bit
Linux kernel maintainer and Linux Foundation Fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman said the reintroduction of 7,000 lines of Android code into the Linux 3.3 kernel will make it somewhat easier for OEMs creating Android systems. App developers? Not so much read more...
Mar 21, 2012
Android and Linux re-merge into one operating system
For years, Android has been a Linux variant, but now, with the release of Linux 3.3, the two operating systems are united again. read more...
Linux servers keep growing, Windows & Unix keep shrinking
2011 saw, according to IDC, Linux servers grow while Windows and Unix servers numbers shrank. In 2012, Linux’s server future looks brighter than ever. read more...
Mar 15, 2012
Is Ubuntu becoming a big name in enterprise Linux servers?
Mark Shuttleworth says yes, Ubuntu is now competitive with Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the enterprise space. read more...
IDC lists top 6 myths, realities about open source
What are the top 6 myths? That open source software will enter every market, is inherently innovative, it improves faster than commercial software, that it has less lock-in, that it’s free and that it has little benefit if one is not involved in the community. IDC calls these ideas “myths” but acknowledges there’s more than a grain of truth to all of them read more...
Mar 13, 2012
"Official" Fedora Linux Remix for Raspberry Pi arrives
After delays, the “recommended” Raspberry Pi Fedora Linux Remix has finally arrived. read more...
Android tablet surge will be led by Google-Motorola, HP, Dell in '12
Fear not, Android lovers. Google’s Motorola Mobility’s next generation tablet will commandeer Android’s rightful place in the market and bring others such as HP and Dell back to the Android table. read more...
Mar 08, 2012
Google, web security and privacy in spotlight at CeBit 2012
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and German Chancellor Dr Angela Merkel offered colorful and markedly different commentary on the importance of “Trust” in the Internet age as more and more data and apps move to the cloud. read more...
Linux patent defense group expands open-source protection
The Open Invention Network, a Linux patent protection consortium, is expanding its defense to related open-source programs such as KVM, Git, OpenJDK, and WebKit. Mobile Linux distributions like Android, MeeGo, and webOS will also soon be expressly protected. read more...
Mar 06, 2012
Linus Torvalds snarls at openSUSE desktop Linux's security
Even Linus “Linux” Torvalds can have desktop Linux headaches. read more...
You can now run Arch & Debian Linux on a Raspberry Pi
Several Linux distributions, Arch and Debian, are now available for the credit-card sized Raspberry Pi computer. Fedora, however, the “official” distribution is still no-where to be found. read more...
Mar 01, 2012
Intel distributes LibreOffice, can Microsoft be pleased?
Intel is now offering the open-source office suite LibreOffice on its application store, Intel AppUp, for Windows users. I wonder what Microsoft thinks about this… read more...
SUSE ships Enterprise Linux SP2, the first under new management
Attachmate-owned SUSE business unit shipped its first update to the Linux distribution that incorporates the new forward-porting model to bring kernel innovations to market faster as well enhanced file system and virtualization support in the form of support for Linux kernel 3.0, Linux Container and the “ButterFS” file system. read more...
