Linux News Desk

Linux platform provider Xandros and Microsoft have announced a broad collaboration agreement based on a set of technical, business, marketing and intellectual property commitments. "Companies today are running a mixture of Linux and Windows systems," said Andreas Typaldos, Chief ... (more)

"I'm certain someone will sue somebody else about Linux on patent grounds, but it's less likely to be Microsoft (starting a trench war) and more likely to be a litigant who only holds IP and doesn't actually get involved in the business of software. It will be a small company, po... (more)

New worldwide servers sales estimates have been published by Gartner and by IDC. According to Gartner IBM wins on revenues like it always does. HP wins on units sold. Dell's market share sunk further. Ditto Sun. IDC's numbers, which are calculated slightly differently, say that H... (more)

Dell has started selling two consumer desktops and a notebook fitted with a factory-loaded copy of the new Ubuntu Linux 7.04, making it the first of the major OEMs to offer standard low-end Linux SKUs. Prices start at $599 and $849. The desktops are a $599 Dimension E520n and an ... (more)

Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian, who's sitting on a tidy little stash, says the company has been looking at acquisitions in its core markets. Red Hat & EMC Snuggle EMC says its Symmetrix, Clariion, Celerra and Invista platforms have completed their interoperability qualification with Red... (more)

Ubuntu, Dell's pick for some of its PCs and laptops, is going to try its hand in the mobile and embedded market next and is talking about riding on small handheld Internet-enabled tablets powered by energy-efficient Intel chips, the tiny Silverthorn that Intel has described as be... (more)

Novell has lost the chief architect of its Linux desktop effort Robert Love to Google and its Open Source Program Office. Many would like to ascribe it to the Microsoft-Novell relationship but Love denied it on Slashdot. It's simply the thrill of working for Google. His blog ent... (more)

On Tuesday, ironically enough May Day - at least somebody in Round Rock hasn't lost their sense of humor - Dell announced that it would be pre-installing Ubuntu 7.04, a k a Feisty Fawn, from South Africa's up-and-coming Linux distributor Canonical on some of its consumer-bent l... (more)

"If I thought the state of Fedora were actually improving, I might hang in there. But it isn't," wrote Eric S. Raymond (pictured) yesterday in an Open Letter with the title "Goodbye, Fedora" which he cross-posted several places including Red Hat's own fedora-devel-list. He is aba... (more)

Palm, which has apparently put thoughts of getting acquired out of its head - at least for the moment - says it's going to use Linux underneath at least some of its smartphones starting this year. It's been developing the mojo in-house for a while now and says it won't license it... (more)

Mainsoft announced the winners of the "Race to Linux 2.0." Jointly sponsored by Mainsoft, IBM, and Novell, the Race to Linux 2.0 challenged .NET developers to take three open-source ASP.NET 2.0 applications from Windows to Linux using their cross-platform tool of choice (e.g. Mon... (more)

IBM has introduced an open beta version of a virtual Linux environment that enables x86 Linux® applications to run without modification on POWER processor-based IBM System p servers. Once released, the technology – called the IBM System p Application Virtual Environment (Sy... (more)

In the throes of a budding relationship with Canonical Ltd, Sun says Glassfish, the open source Java Enterprise Edition 5 application server, will be available on Ubuntu, the species of Linux Canonical is commercializing. Glassfish is currently governed by Sun's CDDL license. Ubu... (more)

WALTHAM, Mass., April 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Novell today announced that it has joined The Green Grid, a consortium of information technology companies and professionals committed to improving energy efficiency in the data center. As a contributing member, Novell is working... (more)

A lot of water has run under the bridge in the three years since Sun and Fujitsu vowed to replace their respective Sparc/Solaris-based Sun Fire and PrimePower machines with a "co-developed" Advanced Product Line (APL) - using a 90nm 2.4GHz dual-threaded dual-core Fujitsu Sparc 64... (more)

The Linux Foundation (LF), formed in early 2007 by the merger of the Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group, has added Marvell, Nokia, and VirtualLogix as new members. "It's really important to understand the issues and opportunities for Linux in multiple envir... (more)

After 70% of the people who wrote into its newfangled IdeaStorm suggestion box said they would use a Dell with Linux, Dell said Wednesday that it will start offering Linux pre-installed on select desktops and notebooks. It hasn't said yet what machines or what Linux distribution or... (more)

Novell is going into the thin client business with a server-based version of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and an image-creation toolkit that resellers can configure, sort of like a poor man's Citrix or Sun Ray. A California school district put its 2,000 machines on the stuff, sayi... (more)

Virtual Bridges, a provider of desktop and enterprise virtualization solutions, announced the release of a major upgrade to its Win4Lin Pro product. Win4Lin Pro Desktop allows Linux users to run Windows applications from the security of the Linux desktop. Win4Lin Virtual Desktop ... (more)

Altiris, a pioneer of service-oriented management solutions, announced the addition of new Linux patch and virtual server management capabilities to help secure and manage heterogeneous server environments. Altiris also announced updates to integrated deployment, patch and monito... (more)