linux

Linux fans put pressure on Dell

News More than 20,000 people have signed a petition calling on Dell to offer Linux-based PCs outside of the US. In late May, the computer manufacturer started selling three models pre-loaded with the Ubuntu Linux distribution, but only in the US.

19 June 2007, 10:43

Linux and Unix face fresh security threat

News US security authority Cert has uncovered a hole in popular software used to run desktop versions of Linux and Unix. The news will bring into question the widespread assumption that Linux and Unix are more secure than supposedly flawed Microsoft...

11 July 2002, 11:20

Linux spreads through Motorola phone lineup

News Motorola announced a new step this week in its plan to remake most of its mobile phone line with Linux, expanding its use of the open-source operating system to midrange phones. The A895 is a flip-phone design that uses a version of Linux from...

4 July 2005, 9:46

Linux launches operating system at the mobile industry

News The Open Source Development Labs, an industry consortium devoted to improving Linux, plans to launch an initiative on Monday to bring the open-source operating system to mobile phones. OSDL's Mobile Linux Initiative is intended to improve Linux for...

17 October 2005, 9:58

Bid to trademark the word 'Linux' rejected

News An attempt by Australia's peak Linux body to register the name 'Linux' on behalf of Linus Torvalds has failed. The application was turned down by Intellectual Property Australia, a federal regulatory agency, because the word Linux was not seen as...

19 September 2005, 9:47

Michael Dell prefers Linux

News After a lifelong allegiance to all things Microsoft, the chief executive of Dell is using Linux in his own home. The revelations about the fondness of the company's founder for Linux may surprise some Dell customers.

20 April 2007, 10:29

Lenovo to launch Linux ThinkPad laptops

News Lenovo is to offer a Linux operating system pre-installed on its ThinkPad laptops. ThinkPad T Series laptops will come pre-installed with Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 in the fourth quarter of this year.

Tags: lenovo, linux, enterprise, installed

7 August 2007, 10:31

Intel developing Linux mini-tablet

News It's based on Linux. While McCaslin's CPU components -- codenamed Stealey -- will be dual-core processors clocked at 600MHz to 800MHz and capable of running Windows XP and Vista, Intel plans for the devices to run an embedded Linux OS but with a...

17 April 2007, 9:47

Gentoo Linux founder to 'educate' Microsoft

News Microsoft has hired one of the key figures behind a popular distribution of Linux in order to educate its in-house developers about open source. Gentoo is a distribution of Linux its developers claim is fully customisable for any application or need.

17 June 2005, 9:56

Palm touts new Linux-based Treos

News Palm is developing a Linux-based operating system for its handheld devices, the company's chief executive, Ed Colligan, revealed on Tuesday. We have been developing a set of system software that we will roll out before the end of the year that will...

12 April 2007, 9:59

Dell brings Linux PCs to the UK

News Dell has launched two PC models with a pre-installed Linux operating system in the UK. From today, UK customers can buy two desktop models with the Ubuntu Linux distribution. According to Dell, the launch was a result of pressure from users of its...

Tags: linux, pre, models, installed

8 August 2007, 9:33

PC World refutes Linux warranty void

News PC World has denied reports that it considers the warranties on its computers void if customers install Linux. Tuesday, a reader of the technology news Web site Slashdot claimed to have taken a recently bought Acer laptop back to PC World to have...

Tags: install, linux, customers, operating system

13 September 2007, 10:02

Google Desktop moves to Linux

News Google on Wednesday launched a beta version of Google Desktop search for Linux in a sign of encouragement by the search giant for Linux on the desktop. Google Desktop for Linux was written natively and uses Google's own desktop search algorithms...

28 June 2007, 10:05

Dell's Linux PC launch hits rocky ground

News Dell's Linux PC launch has gone belly up as the computer supplier admitted it has been hit by "gremlins". Dell announced on Tuesday that it would launch two PCs with a pre-installed Linux operating system on Wednesday.

Tags: linux, models, pcs, pre

9 August 2007, 9:52

Microsoft: No Office on Linux 'at this time'

News Microsoft has no plans to tweak its Office productivity suite for Linux anytime soon, despite the growing popularity of open source on the desktop, according to a company executive. Speaking at the LinuxWorld conference in London on Wednesday, Nick...

6 October 2005, 10:24