Big Blue's CIO has directed the company to begin an internal initiative to evaluate Linux for use on desktop computers, a further endorsement of the open-source operating system. Stephen Shankland ...

Whatever your opinion of Linux’s desktop potential, few would dispute the value of the open source operating system in embedded devices such as mobile phones and personal media players. After all, ...

NVIDIA joins existing premier members Boeing and Redhat.

A crowdfunded project has launched that aims to to port Linux to Apple's new Arm-based silicon Macs. Hector Martin, a Tokyo-based IT security consultant by day and hacker by night, has kicked off what ...

As a supplier of embedded processor boards, developers are telling us in unambiguous terms that Linux' numerous advantages clearly outweigh its shortcomings. While Linux it is a moving target — with ...

The Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced plans this week to collaborate with Linux NetworX Inc. and SGI Federal Inc. to help advance the parallel global file system, an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Linux's luminary linchpin, Linus Torvalds, says that despite long-standing reports of burnout in the open source software ...

A company has withdrawn an allegation that CoreAVC-for-Linux violates its copyright and now is cooperating with the project, which is hosted at Google Code. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

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IBM's chief information officer has directed the company to begin an internal project to evaluate Linux for use on desktop computers, a further endorsement of the open-source operating system. A ...