While on a full scholarship at Auburn, Spencer started Digium as a Linux consultant.
The company, besides supporting Windows, is backing a Linux-based variant in partnership with Nokia Corp.
Red Hat, a Linux support company, went public and attained a multibillion-dollar market cap.
El gobierno de Brasil tiene planes para pasar todos los computadores de Microsoft a Linux.
One strong candidate is Meego, a Linux-based project first announced by Intel and Nokia in Feb. 2010.
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With SuSE, a Linux distributor, the connection is obvious, but MP3.com's interest in Linux-based ReiserFS is less clear-cut.
The company no longer offers a Linux client, though the available Chrome extension should help sooth the pain.
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Examples: selling solid-state hard drives on certain notebooks, or offering laptops preloaded with a Linux operating system called Ubuntu.
The whole affair began when teenager Jon Johansen wrote DeCSS in order to view DVDs on a Linux machine.
Now, here's a more general view of the layout of a Linux filesystem.
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When asked if an NT box running Sendmail would be as secure as a Linux box running Sendmail, Hodges demurred.
Her blog, Groklaw, sprang up in 2003 to cover a Linux-related lawsuit that software firm SCOGroup had filed against IBM.
If you're planning to set up your server as a Linux box, you probably don't need any further instruction from us.
Alongside the HTC-made handset are an altitude and orbit control system, two propulsion setups and a Linux-based computer with a "high-speed" processor.
Once you become a Linux Jedi Master feel free to take a swim in the ocean of alternative open source filesystem types.
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Bottomley has already overcome most of these challenges, although he's still waiting for a Linux Foundation-specific key that should theoretically clear a major hurdle.
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Complicated enterprises, like maintaining Wikipedia or building a Linux operating system, now can be accomplished with little or no corporate management structure at all.
It's almost impossible to believe, but the crew at Engadget has been talking about a Linux-based Palm phone since way back in 2004.
The omission of a Linux app, a painfully slow web interface and the lack of free offline access on Android irk me more than a little.
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Matthew Pavlovich, founder of the LiViD project and president of the Dallas-based technology startup Media Driver, testified Friday that DeCSS was critical in developing a Linux-based DVD player.
Note: While Android is based on a Linux kernel, the goal behind Tizen seems to be an even more open-source, flexible OS designed to be user-friendly and carrier-friendly.
He will show the code, he adds, to anybody who signs a non-disclosure agreement but what use would it be for a Linux hacker to see the code but forever shut up about it?
The diminutive laptop will feature that Intel N270 Atom CPU (at 1.6GHz) we've already heard about, an 8.9-inch SWVGA display, 512MB of RAM, a 4GB SSD, and will apparently utilize a Linux build.
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In December, Sony and Matsushita Electric Industrial (nyse: MC - news - people ), known for its Panasonic products, announced a partnership to develop a Linux-based platform for the home.
We need a Linux for the pharma sector.
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Working in the Evo's favor is the fact that it's really nothing more than a Linux-based computer that relies entirely on off the shelf parts like an overclocked Athlon 64x2 5600 processor and ATI Radeon 3200 graphics.
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The operating system is also on products from TiVo (nasdaq: TIVO - news - people )--and Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) recently announced that it would offer a Linux-based cell phone.
If you do work up the arm strength and fashion courage to lug this thing outside, however, you'll find that quick connectivity is greatly enhanced by Splashtop, which allows you to quickly boot to a Linux-based shell and run a browser.
But Access' interest might not even have been the Palm OS. By acquiring PalmSource, the company gained Linux development resources for mobile devices in the U.S., France and China, including those from PalmSource's recent acquisition of China MobileSoft, a Linux software firm.
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