What our man Pascal Brisset did is design a Linux system around a Gumstix Overo Fire computer-on-module, a Vuzix VR920 head-mounted stereoscopic 640 x 480 display (complete with 3D tilt sensor and 3D magnetic compass), WiFi, and Bluetooth modules -- the whole shebang resides in (and on) the eyewear, just the thing for secure telepresence and augmented reality applications (or just extra-private web browsing).
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The GW4s on display were running on a different Linux operating system, a version of MontaVista Linux, but when they hit U.S. shelves (which is expected in the second quarter of 2008) they will be equipped with the Android.
Examples: selling solid-state hard drives on certain notebooks, or offering laptops preloaded with a Linux operating system called Ubuntu.
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 only took a minute to relocate the Linux loader, and System Commander is a dream when it comes to recovering its master boot record.
However, the biggest challenge to Sun's dominance may come not from the old enemy in Redmond, but from Linux, a free operating system that is a product of the open-source movement.
One such tool, the Ramen worm, attacks computers that run a particular version of the Linux operating system.
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Clarke offered few details, but he said the technology relies on a second processor and an embedded Linux system that allows users to bypass Windows to surf the Web, check e-mail and calendar, and view attachments the moment users flip up a laptop's lid.
Dataquest, a San Jose research firm, also predicts big things the operating system, saying Linux will account for almost a quarter of worldwide server appliance revenue by the year 2003.
To transform Chrome and Gears into a lightweight operating system, Google will have replaced the rest of Linux with a slimmed down windowing and application manager that integrates with Chrome and Gears for running applications on the web and with the Linux kernel for running the computer hardware.
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"What you get is a recent college graduate loading Linux on some old system that's kicking around, and it's free, " said Dan Kuznetsky, program director for IDC's operating environments service.
More importantly, Microsoft and Sun have a new common enemy: Linux, an operating system that competes with Windows and with Sun's Solaris but which, unlike the other two, is written by volunteers and shared freely among all who want to download and use it.
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.
Red Hat has made it to a billion my selling a subscription service that provides a stable, supported, distribution of the Linux operating system.
Lesswatts.org will host a group of software developers working to build Linux operating system upgrades that use server hardware more efficiently and save energy.
The computer runs on open-sourced operating system Linux and can be hooked up to a monitor, keyboard and mouse.
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Google's mobile software is based on the Linux operating system and was created in conjunction with a group of more than 30 technology companies called the Open Handset Alliance.
Ericsson's Screen Phone, which runs the open-source Linux operating system, combines both Internet access and a speaker phone, and will communicate with a home base station using the emerging Bluetooth technology for wireless personal area networking.
There are many talented developers, for example, who are happy to invest countless hours with no cash compensation to develop open source software such as the Firefox browser or the Linux operating system because it gives them satisfaction and a chance to show off their coding chops to the broader community of developers.
When most people think about open source, they usually think of the free Linux operating system, which is developed and maintained by a worldwide network of collaborators.
Originally developed as a desktop PC operating system, Canonical is looking to bring this Linux based OS not only to smartphones, but also to TVs and the cloud.
We focused on 28-year-old Linus Torvalds, a Finn who in 1991 wrote the first version of Linux, operating system software that has become the darling of hard-core computer users.
PalmSource also hopes to expand its business worldwide by using CMS technology to develop a new version of its Palm operating system that will run on Linux-based phone sets.
Most investments so far, particularly those in Linux companies, are fairly speculative: venture capitalists want to be covered in case Linux turns into a serious competitor to Microsoft's Windows operating system.
It takes the software packages developed by Linux volunteers, tests them, assembles them into a working operating system and ships the result on a compact disc along with a manual and a promise of support.
Coverity's founders, four graduate students from Stanford University and their professor, recently grammar-checked the entire Linux 2.6.9 kernel operating system and found a respectably low 950 bugs in 5.5 million lines.
GitHub is a version control system based on Git, an open source project started by Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
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Linux, the "open-source" pc operating system, has a different sort of cultism, one more disposed to compatibility.
Linux, the free, open source operating system, continues to hover at a little over one percent.
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