Open Source News
This section provides a daily dose of regularly updated Open Source News.Linux phone distro lauded for innovation
— Feb. 04, 2008 — MontaVista's Mobilinux 5.0 Linux implementation for mobile phones was named a finalist in EDN Magazine 's 2008 "Innovation Awards" for the semiconductor business.
2/12/2008 10:56:04 AM
Azingo to Deliver Mobile Linux Solution for the Texas Instruments OMAP3430 Multimedia Processor
SUNNYVALE, Calif. & BARCELONA, Spain, BUSINESS WIRE -- Mobile Linux company Azingo, announced today that Azingo Mobile will support the Texas Instruments' OMAP3430 processor.
2/12/2008 10:03:56 AM
Freescale opens MXC mobiles to Linux
Freescale Semiconductor has started supporting Linux on its cellular products and is demonstrating the capabilities of its cellular platform using the open source operating system at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
2/12/2008 9:54:33 AM
Linpus Launches Its Unique Dual-Mode User Interface Linux Operating System
Linpus Technologies will be demonstrating its brand new Linux operating system, Linpus Linux Lite, designed to empower the next billion PC customers. Linpus Linux Lite has a unique dual-mode user interface making it an easy way to start enjoying the opportunity of information. It also works on low cost hardware bringing the dream of buying a PC much closer for many people.
2/12/2008 7:31:51 AM
Red Hat, Ubuntu Win Linux Popularity Poll
Ubuntu and Red Hat are the most used Linux distributions among the 35,000 members of content-management vendor Alfresco's community, the company found in its second survey of trends in enterprise open-source software usage.
2/11/2008 9:45:00 AM
Orange Joins LiMo Foundation to Mobilise Linux Industry
London (ots/PRNewswire) - - Operator Announces the Samsung i800, the First Open Linux Handset From Orange Orange today announced its entrance to the LiMo ...
2/11/2008 2:33:01 AM
LG, Samsung bet on new mobile Linux platform
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Samsung and LG Electronics on Monday showed new phones using free Linux software from Mobile Linux foundation, which said in total 18 phones from seven vendors would use its software.
2/11/2008 2:06:58 AM
LiMo Gains Steam as Mobile Linux of Choice
Several key supporters are abandoning the LiPS standard to embrace its competitor in mobile Linux projects.
2/11/2008 2:01:00 AM
MontaVista(R) and DataViz(R) Team to Bring Documents To Go(R) to . Linux-based Mobile Devices
Linux-based Mobile Devices 11/02/2008 07:00:00 Business Wire GB00B041XY36 MontaVista(R) Software, Inc., the leader in embedded Linux(R) commercialization, and DataViz(R), Inc., the leading provider of mobile Office compatibility solutions, today announced the availability of Documents To Go(R) for the MontaVista Mobilinux(TM) 5.0 mobile operating system.
2/11/2008 1:27:25 AM
Monotype Imaging Announces iType Connects Plug-in for Open Source . Linux Platforms
Linux Platforms 11/02/2008 07:03:00 Business Wire Monotype Imaging Inc. (Nasdaq: TYPE), a leading global provider of text imaging solutions, has announced that its iType(R) scalable font engine is available as a plug-in for open source Linux(R) environments.
2/11/2008 1:26:25 AM
Wind River and ACCESS Extend Partnership Into Linux-based Mobile . (2º) Handset Market
Handset Market 11/02/2008 06:00:00 Business Wire us2058624022 The new Wind River-ACCESS pre-integrated mobile Linux platform is expected to be available during the second quarter of 2008 and has been initially proven on the Texas Instruments OMAP2430 high-performance application processor and Marvell s PXA30x and PXA31x application processor chipsets.
2/11/2008 12:42:35 AM
Linux Kernel 2.6 Local Root Exploit
aquatix writes "This local root exploit (Debian, Ubuntu) seems to work everywhere I try it, as long as it's a Linux kernel version 2.6.17 to 2.6.24.1. If you don't trust your users (which you shouldn't), better compile a new kernel without vmsplice." Here is millw0rm's proof-of-concept code. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
2/10/2008 2:44:29 PM
Hollywood, Linux, and CinePaint at FOSDEM 2008
At first, studios had no choice but to develop Linux applications in house. The film industry has millions of lines of Linux code, both desktop applications and server pipelines. Studio Linux programmers write code in C++, Python, Perl, and Java.
2/10/2008 10:01:22 AM
Linux Expo can help you build a business
The focus of the two-day show at the Westin Los Angeles Airport Hotel will be on the Linux operating system - made to work like the mainframe stalwart Unix but now available for servers and desktop computers of all kinds.
2/10/2008 10:01:02 AM
Three Minutes with Red Hat's Chief
New CEO brings passion and an eclectic background as he charts a new course for the Linux developer.
2/10/2008 10:00:00 AM
Tech, G.P.: Linux experiment is going my way
She tried it on her own (Linux), with a little coaching, and found it seemed she could do what she wanted to. She'd give it a try and see what happened.
2/9/2008 12:01:12 PM
Chip heads drive Linux mobile challenge
Intel has released the latest edition, version 1.3, of its Mobile Platform Software Developers Kit (SDK) that comes with added Linux support. The previous version had only worked on Windows.
2/9/2008 12:00:52 PM
Is Linus Torvalds Speaking for Linux Anymore?
An anonymous reader writes to tell us CNET is currently running a story asking 'Is Linus Torvalds even speaking for Linux anymore?' It examines both Torvalds' recent public statements on other operating systems and his current approach towards Linux. The author wonders if his utopian view of how an operating system should be viewed and used is just too alien from what the majority of users are ...
2/8/2008 1:44:29 PM
Why your grandma doesn't run desktop Linux
We've got to stop trying to force-feed the Linux desktop to the masses. It won't work, says CNET Blog Network contributor Matt Asay.
2/8/2008 11:52:23 AM
TechEd 2007: Xandros Becomes Second Linux Vendor to License MS IP
ORLANDO [3:45 pm ET June 4, 2007] - At TechEd 2007 in Orlando this morning, although there were few product announcements from the keynotes, Microsoft senior vice president Bob Muglia announced that Xandros has become the second Linux vendor to license Microsoft's intellectual property for use with Linux, following in Novell's footsteps.
2/8/2008 9:48:37 AM
Hotmail Doesn't Work With Linux Firefox 2.0
An anonymous reader tips a column up at freesoftwaremagazine.com in which the writer discovers that the latest UI enhancements that Hotmail has recently introduced don't work with Firefox 2.0 under Linux. The writer concludes that the webmail interface has been artificially limited by basic user-agent sniffing. The solution is simple enough — spoofing the User Agent that Firefox reports. Read ...
2/8/2008 8:59:29 AM
Torvalds On Desktop Linux's Slow Uptake
javipas notes a Wired piece summarizing a two-part interview with Linus Torvalds that's up at linux-foundation.org (part 1, part 2). In the second part the creator of the Linux kernel gives his view on the limited success of Linux on the desktop. "I have never, ever cared about really anything but the Linux desktop... The desktop is also the thing where people get really upset if something ...
2/8/2008 8:29:30 AM
Wind River Linux Meets Carrier Grade 4.0 Spec
ALAMEDA , Calif. – ( NASDAQ:WIND ) Wind River Systems has said that it has become the first commercial vendor to meet the Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) 4.0 requirements specified by the Linux Foundation.
2/8/2008 8:01:32 AM
Moving My Mother Over to Linux
Linux.com: "To save money, I cobbled together a computer for my mother out of cast-offs left over from my own upgrades..."
2/8/2008 3:15:11 AM
Wind River Delivers on Carrier Grade Linux Specification for Networking Industry
ALAMEDA, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIND), the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), announced today that it has become the first commercial vendor to meet the Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) 4.0 requirements specified by the Linux Foundation.
2/7/2008 10:20:13 AM
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