Portrait of a Linux iPhone-killer wannabe, Aug 02, 2007

In the race to be the first "iPhone killer," the most unlikely but perhaps most intriguing candidate is based on a new Linux platform with the peculiar name OpenMoko.

The recent announcement that Microsoft intends to submit licenses for approval by the Open Source Initiative indicates that the company has come a long way since its chief executive Steve Ballmer dismissed Linux as 'a cancer' in June 2001.

Lately, however, more and more companies are discovering that they have alternatives when it comes to choosing an IT infrastructure, and that there really are some sound reasons not to go with Windows.

Today all but a handful of the secretaries, lawyers and legal assistants use SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop

If you're a Vista-wary Windows user who would rather switch than fight, should you move to a Linux distro or Apple's OS X? We asked a Mac fan and a Linux advocate to lead a guided tour of each OS.

The Penguin (named Tux) is finally making inroads as an operating system on desktops too.

Acer did not preinstall the Ubuntu Linux distribution on a batch of Aspire notebooks for sale in Singapore, but instead is installing a different version of the open source operating system, local dealers said.

The commonwealth of Massachusetts has officially thrown its weight behind Microsoft's Office Open XML format along with the OASIS Open Document Format.

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