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Nobel Peace Prize to Linus Torvalds?
Now this is one to ponder. This year, the Nobel Peace Prize went to Barack Obama, president of the United States. The prize has been given to both politicians and non-politicians alike, and Keith Lofstrom thinks its time to hand over the Peace Prize to a

Novell: Turning The Linux Market Into A Healthy Duopoly - New Report Published
Newly released report, Novell: turning the Linux market into a healthy duopoly, provides detailed company analysis Published on November 20, 2009by Press Office(Companiesandmarkets.com and OfficialWire)LONDON, ENGLAND Novell has grown into a serious

Trust Linux!
The latest release of openSUSE, a Linux version sponsored by software maker Novell, comes packaged with software that allows users to set up a trusted computing (TC) environment on their computer, enhancing security beyond the antivirus programs and

Open Source Science: A Revolution From Within
It worked for software, so why not science? The open source science movement has been gaining momentum, and it's shaping the future of scientific research and discovery. Everyone -- scientists, the general public, and even taxpayers -- stands to benefit

Google Spills Chrome OS' Guts
Google has made public the source code for its upcoming Chrome operating system. The OS will begin appearing on consumer-targeted netbooks next year. Chrome is built to live completely on the Web -- very little data is stored directly on the user's hard

FOSS and the Google Question
How FOSSy is Google, really? 'I find it kinda funny that folks tout that Google uses Linux when the most useful tool they have developed -- the Google FS -- they keep internally and therefore don't have to share the code!' observed Slashdot blogger

Autodesk Collaborates With DreamWorks and Imageworks on Mudbox for Linux
Autodesk Consulting Provides Linux Pipeline Implementation for Mudbox Digital Sculpting and Texture Painting Software Autodesk has announced that DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (NASDAQ: DWA) and Sony Pictures Imageworks are integrating Autodesk Mudbox

LinMin™ Release 5.5 Introduces ‘Provisioning Rollback’ for Optimization of Linux and Windows Infrastructures and Recovery from Human Error
LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 5.5 also introduces the Provisioning of Debian Linux Systems and refreshes the Deployment Support of new Linux Distributions from Red Hat, Novell, Fedora, CentOS and Ubuntu REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – November 10, 2009 –

EU gives Oracle extra time to respond to Sun inquiry
Oracle and Sun Microsystems have been granted an extra week to defend their planned US$7 billion merger in front of European regulators, the European Commission said Friday.Earlier this month the Commission, Europe's top antitrust regulator, issued

Open-source virtualization: Who's biting?
Virtualization is unarguably one of the biggest trends of the past few years, and open-source software has been on the IT radar for a while now. So does that make open-source virtualization twice as much of a good thing? At least some corporate IT

Autodesk Collaborates With DreamWorks and Imageworks on Mudbox for Linux
Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) has announced that DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (NASDAQ:DWA) and Sony Pictures Imageworks are integrating Autodesk Mudbox software into their Linux-based production pipelines. Autodesk Consulting’s custom development team

Automatic Linux Laptop Backups
cron is great for servers and desktops that are always on, but if you want to schedule a backup (or indeed any other job) on a laptop or other machine that may not always be on, try anacron instead. With cron, you schedule a job at a specific date and

White paper: GoPrint - Why Linux?
So why should you consider Linux? Although there are many factors to consider when deciding on which operating system (OS) to deploy, two prominent considerations are TCO- Total Cost of Ownership, and Reliability/Security. With the GoPrint Linux

Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize?
An anonymous reader writes 'I'm as much of a Linux fanboy as anyone else, but I've never thought of anything in computing as being worth a Nobel Peace Prize. Apparently, there are those who take global collaboration seriously, though...' The suggestion

Open Source Gets Bigger CeBIT Spotlight
Article Source Community-cation The strong growth of open source in IT will be demonstrated with its prominent placement at the world's largest computer event, CeBIT 2010. That's the news coming out of Hannover, Germany the permanent home for the CeBIT

Autodesk Collaborates With DreamWorks and Imageworks on Mudbox for LinuxA short introductory video to Autodesk Mudbox digital sculpting and texture painting software.
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Autodesk, Inc . (NASDAQ:ADSK) has announced that DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (NASDAQ:DWA) and Sony Pictures Imageworks are integrating Autodesk Mudbox software into their Linux-based production pipelines. Autodesk

How Chrome OS fits in with Windows, Mac and Linux
After announcement Ive had a little time to think about Googles vision for the OS and how it fits in with Windows, Mac and Linux. The Good Theres a lot I like about Chrome OS because it sound different enough and radical enough to maybe get people

Chrome OS - The good, the bad and the ugly, and how it fits in with Windows, Mac and Linux
After yesterdays Ive had a little time to think about Googles vision for the OS and how it fits in with Windows, Mac and Linux. The Good Theres a lot I like about Chrome OS because it sound different enough and radical enough to maybe get people thinking

Fedora 12 Package Installation Policy Tightened
AdamWill writes 'After the controversy over Fedora 12's controversial package installation authentication policy, including our discussion this week, the package maintainers have agreed that the controversial policy will be tightened to require root

Google holds the future of Linux
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Google Chrome OS slammed by Microsoft, Linux vendors
Rivals mock web only weaknesses Microsoft is, predictably, not all that impressed by Google's demonstration of its upcoming Chrome OS, but neither were a number of potential rivals in the Linux and instant-on operating system space.

Why Chrome OS will fail -- big time
The Chrome OS is here -- sort of. This week, Google was kind of enough to give the world a sneak peek at its nascent desktop operating system. And after months of speculation (and more than a few bogus screenshot galleries), I can finally say that I've

Microsoft, Linux rivals mock Google Chrome OS
Operating system crippled by reliance on web access Microsoft is, predictably, not all that impressed by Google's demonstration of its upcoming Chrome OS, but neither were a number of potential rivals in the Linux and instant-on operating system space.

Could Linux Fall Prey To Windows Malware?
Can software that allows you to run Windows software on a Linux system also expose your system to Windows malware? In practice, the answer appears to be no. And in theory? Let's face it: When common sense goes missing, anything is possible. For about a

Aldec announces Low-cost Linux RTL and Gate-level Simulator
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CodeWeavers Releases CrossOver Games 8.1 for Mac and Linux
ST. PAUL, Minn., BUSINESS WIRE -- Despite a crazed assault of zombie playtesters on their headquarters, CodeWeavers, Inc., a leading developer of software products that turn Mac OS X and Linux into Windows-compatible operating systems, today announced

Red Hat Introduces Virtualization Platform for Heterogeneous Servers and Clouds
Red Hat has announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, a new product set in the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portfolio. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers is designed to enable pervasive adoption

Making money from open source: Still an issue
Several years after open source began to take the world by storm, the question of how to make money in the genre still remains an issue, with a prominent Novell official Wednesday advising caution for those considering a move to open source. The