Unbreakable Linux still unproven, analyst warns, Dec 06, 2006

IT managers running Red Hat Linux should think carefully before making the switch to Unbreakable Linux, the new Linux distribution that Oracle Corp. announced last month.

This [Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere] browser add-on enables rendering of WPF content, but "Everywhere" doesn't include Linux.

Running Linux on your Playstation 3 has been possible for two weeks now, but to test how the machine performs with various applications, a benchmark program had to be adapted to run on it. A guy over at Geek Patrol did this and found out the Console is about as fast as a Pentium 3 800MHz, a 6 year old processor.

It is difficult to find a better case of bad timing than Novell's announcement this week that it would be implementing support for Microsoft's OpenXML format in its (Novell's) version of OpenOffice.org.

The Linux operating system is the recipient of 75% of all vendor investment in open source software, according to a new report from the Harvard Business School

Programmers from Red Hat, Novell and the Mozilla Foundation have pledged closer cooperation to ease technical obstacles that exist today, work planned to result in versions of the Firefox browser tailored for different versions of Linux.

Novell Inc., which makes the Linux operating system, said late Tuesday it likely swung to a profit in the latest quarter after cutting costs.

Last week saw the end of most of The SCO Group's claims of IBM contributing Unix code to Linux. Now, Novell has filed a motion that undercuts all of SCO's contract claims against IBM, based on a "silver bullet" clause in the original sale of Unix to SCO.

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