IBM launches 'Microsoft-free' PC initiative, Mar 05, 2008

IBM is teaming up with partners in Austria and Poland to offer Microsoft-free PCs for the eastern European market.

The BBC says it will make a download version of its iPlayer available for Macs before the end of this year.

The One Laptop Per Child foundation is to offer the XO PC for sale until the end of the year, because of unexpected demand.

The BBC has backtracked on claims that it has only hundreds of Linux users accessing its website.

Linux has doubled its share of the desktop market over the past year, but has still to reach even 1% of computers according to the latest figures from Net Applications.

Microsoft is regretting the way it handled the patent protection deal with Novell and other Linux vendors, according to open-source advocates.

PC World claims a customer who'd been told that the store wouldn't repair his laptop screen because he'd installed Linux on the system was simply the victim of a "misunderstanding."

Mozilla and Google are collaborating on an effort to make web applications work offline.

he notebook uses a custom-written Linux operating system, much like the OLPC, though unlike the OLPC, Asus has chosen a more conventional interface.

In a bid to highlight the ease with which applications can be ported to Linux, the Mono project IBM and Mainsoft will host the 'Race to Linux 2.0'.

'Linux' company Novell has ceased involvement in an open-source group collaboration project once described by Tim O'Reilly as 'a project to watch'.

Hewlett Packard is expanding its support for Linux distributions by adding Debian Linux to its list. The company says that Debian Linux is now enabled across HP's range of ProLiant and BladeSystem servers.

An IBM researcher working on operating systems, virtualisation and computer security has developed an application that enables Linux, and potentially Windows XP, to boot on an Intel Mac.

The makers of Ubuntu Linux are planning to develop an equivalent to Apple's .Mac service.

RealNetworks is to extend its Rhapsody.com US music subscription service to Mac and Linux users, offering unlimited access to its entire one million plus music catalogue just as long for a monthly fee.

Novell has hit back at claims from Microsoft that the Suse Enterprise flavour of Linux was relatively unreliable and difficult to maintain compared with Windows Server.

A highly critical security vulnerability has been discovered in various flavours of the Skype IP telephony software.

Mandriva has launched the 2006 version of its Linux platform, claiming the 'only' Linux distro to offer official support for Intel's Centrino platform.

French Linux builder Mandriva and NEC computers have announced a joint initiative to develop customised Linux solutions for the corporate and public sectors.

SCO's latest filing in its legal battle against Novell appears to lend credence to Novell's claim that the transfer of Unix to SCO was not comprehensive.