Flirt with the cutting edge, with Mono Live, May 26, 2005

This week, the Mono Project announced the release of Mono Live, a LiveCD allowing you to flirt with the Mono framework and Linux, without committing to installing a new distribution.

As promised, the Scyld Software unit of Penguin Computing Inc has begin shipping its latest release of the Beowulf clustering software that its founders created for the Linux operating system.

Nokia said Wednesday its patented technology may be freely used in the Linux kernel, making the Finnish cell phone giant the newest computing company to begin offering intellectual property protections to open-source programmers.

Novell Inc. on Wednesday posted a quarterly loss on restructuring charges, while revenue rose slightly from a year earlier, but shares in the software company dropped after both fell short of expectations.

The deliberately simple nature of the Palm operating system was so inspiring to Rick Broida that in 1997 he started a magazine, Tap, dedicated to devices using the handheld operating system.

The rivalry between Wind River Systems and MontaVista Software warmed up this week in the market for Linux in embedded-computing devices such as cell phones and network equipment.

So what are the folks at Nokia thinking? Why is the company introducing a Linux-based Web tablet?

Richard Stallman, one of the main forces behind the GNU/Linux operating system and the free software movement, is in Taiwan fighting on a new front -- to get the island's PC makers to release source code for their drivers.

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