VMware moves vCenter to Linux, Feb 26, 2009

VMware will release future versions of vCenter, its flagship virtualisation-management software, in Linux versions as well as for Windows.

It looks like a war of words has broken out between Google and the Symbian Foundation over which mobile platform is truly more open. Is there really a right answer to this debate?

The company's SheevaPlug development kit envisions a bill of materials that could place a small, Linux-powered computer in a tiny, compact space.

Mary Lou Jepsen didn't set out to invent the netbook and turn the computer industry upside down. She was just trying to create a supercheap laptop.

Google Android is based on Linux and was originally developed for mobile phones. It’s finding it difficult to gain traction because of the success of Apple’s iPhone. Developers are heavily favoring the iPhone for their applications. The netbook market could be Android’s cup of tea.

For the first time in recent memory, Microsoft has a real operating system competitor for PCs. And Vista is not up to the challenge because they wants to sell it for full price and it’s too resource intensive for low powered netbooks . So Microsoft is relying on its two year outdated OS, Windows XP to take on Linux.

Version 3.0 of the ACCESS Linux Platform has been unveiled at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona. The new version offers a richer user interface and compliance with LiMo.

Cellphones are growing up, and they just might pose a new threat to the Intel-Microsoft based personal computers.

It's the world's largest ever desktop Linux deployment.

A flock of new mobile devices unveiled this week at Mobile World Congress are part of the trend toward Linux-powered mobility, incorporating the open-source software stack from the LiMo Foundation.

MontaVista introduces customizable Linux-based Mobile Internet Device Platform.

With deteriorating global economic conditions making their impact felt in the wireless industry, handset OEMs and mobile network operators are looking towards Linux-based operating systems to cut costs and diversify handset portfolios

Intel and LG today announced an agreement that will see LG launch a high-end device based on Intel's "Moorestown" platform in 2010.

NEC and Panasonic will unveil on Monday nine new cellphone models running the open-source LiMo operating system, wireless Linux foundation LiMo said at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona.

The world's second-largest cell phone maker, Samsung Electronics, will start to sell several phones using open-source Linux software platforms this year, a senior executive told Reuters in an interview.

Early reaction to Windows 7 is that it's a winner. Could the successor to Vista be Microsoft's last gasp, or does open source have a formidable new rival to Linux?

The variety of Linux distros may be ensuring Linux grabs an ever-increasing share of the enterprise server OS market, Windows pretends to compete against itself, and Apple, well, Apple just doesn't bother.

It seems more and more people are looking at Linux as a real alternative to Microsoft’s desktop operating systems. Both Russia and Cuba have announced that they will be developing their own national Linux distributions for internal use as an alternative to Microsoft products.

Canadian government puts out a call for information on free software.

Discover cloud computing, and learn why there's a penguin behind that silver lining.

The open source project unveiled on Wednesday that brings Microsoft's RIA platform to Linux and Unix was used to stream the Presidential inauguration.

One of the largest mobile operators in the world, Spain's Telefonica, joined wireless Linux foundation LiMo on Monday and committed with five other operators to sell phones using its software this year.

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