Linux Terminals Increase 32% YoY Says Report, Feb 25, 2008

POS Terminals running Microsoft Windows operating systems drove $3.8 billion of the $5.56 Billion North American Retail POS Terminal Market in 2007, according to a new study by IHL Group. IBM 4690 terminals generated $1.02 billion and Linux-based machines $475 million, with DOS and other operating systems being installed on the remainder of units. These figures take into consideration the 2007 current shipments and maintenance on existing terminals installed in the U.S. and Canada.

The focus of the two-day show at the Westin Los Angeles Airport Hotel will be on the Linux operating system - made to work like the mainframe stalwart Unix but now available for servers and desktop computers of all kinds. But a big part of the SCALE 6X show will be how companies like Google, Ticketmaster and Shopzilla use free, open-source software to build huge businesses.

The Foresight Linux Project is proud to announce the release of Foresight Linux 1.4.

Yesterday, the Linux based One Laptop Per Child was presented an INDEX: AWARD for winning the Community category. The INDEX: AWARD is presented every other year, and in addition to the glory, each award comes with a €100 000 prize. INDEX: AWARD operates with five categories, which refer to the context for which the designs are intended: body, home, work, play and community.

The Debian project is pleased to announce the first update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename etch).

The Debian project confirms December 2006 as the date for the next release of its distribution which will be named Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias 'etch'.

Free Standards Group (FSG) has announced Linuxprinting.org, the de facto standard repository for printer drivers on Linux, is merging with the FSG’s OpenPrinting workgroup and will be integrated and supported in the Linux Standard Base (LSB).

The first BETA of Freespire Linux was released on Friday. Freespire is a no-cost version of the Linspire operating system based on Linux and Open Source.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Sea Fisheries (MARDSF), one of the first Moroccan government departments to take advantage of free software, has just signed a contract with Liberty Tech to migrate all its servers to Mandriva Linux.

Red Hat has said that the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) saved the federal government more than $15 million in datacenter operating and upgrading costs by migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

TechNewsWorld published an opinion piece authored by Rob Enderle where he opines, “Why Linux May Never Be a True Desktop OS”. This is a rebuttal to that article.

This is the second update of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (codename `sarge') which mainly adds security updates to the stable release, along with some corrections to serious problems.

Last October, Neugent launched the Hawkeye LX DVR Series — a set of 16-channel and 8-channel PC-based digital video recorders running on the Linux platform, targeted for the enterprise market.

The Nasdaq Stock Market has said that the annual re-ranking of the NASDAQ-100 Index®, will be effective with the market open on Monday, December 19, 2005. The new listing includes Red Hat and Google.

A certified NoMachine NX Client will be included in the first German edition of the Xandros Desktop OS, which will debut on November 15 at the Frankfurt LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.

Turbolinux has announced the highly anticipated release of Turbolinux FUJI Version 11 (FUJI). Turbolinux's new operating system platform is designed for optimum desktop and laptop computer performance.

Xandros has announced an agreement to deliver Xandros desktop and server products to retail customers throughout the United States and Canada.

This semiannual event, which has evolved into the world's largest gathering of Linux-Itanium users, will be hosted by the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) and sponsored by HP and Intel.

The second Slackware release of 2005, Slackware Linux 10.2 continues the long Slackware tradition of simplicity, stability, and security.

HP today announced that it has set an industry-first milestone by shipping more than 1 million Linux servers to customers since 1998, 45 percent more than any other major hardware vendor.