Most companies that opt for Linux get it from distributors that also offer training and support.
E-Trade Financial dumped Sun for Linux-on-Intel in 2002 and found that the new machines were faster and more reliable.
Since our story, Sybase, Informix and IBM have announced that they would sell database software for Linux systems.
Like other Valve titles recently released to Steam for Linux, Half-Life 2 is merely a beta for now.
At the last count, over 90% all PCs worldwide ran on Microsoft Windows, compared with around 4% for Linux.
When programmers write code for Linux, it gets extensively scrutinised by their peers.
Fusion-io said that its Fusion-io virtualization caching software offers intelligent application caching for Linux as well as Microsoft operating systems.
For an up-to-date third-party listing of games and applications that are currently in development for Linux, visit the Marlamin site.
Just as the software itself has become more solid, so support for Linux within the computer industry has also been growing.
But now one of the best games (IMHO) on any platform is about to become one of the best games for Linux.
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New companies such as Red Hat succeed by simply offering service for Linux installation rather than developing their own software, Raymond says.
Depending on how the ax falls, that could be bad for Linux.
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Russel Coombes, HP's Linux business manager in the UK, said the company was responding to growing demand for Linux-based products in Asia.
Indeed, services, support and software tools are where the money is for Linux, since the operating system can essentially be had for free.
Well, yes, technically speaking, you couldn't actually play that version until this week when it launched on Steam for Linux, but our question stands!
Now the same could be about to happen for Linux with the mobile phone, with Google set to give Linux a major endorsement this November.
For Linux enthusiasts, Google has stayed true to its developer-friendly principles.
Eazel's first product will be a graphical user interface for Linux.
One of the better-known "pure plays" is Red Hat Software (nasdaq: RHAT - news - people ), which provides support services for Linux.
Open source developers are writing standards and testing procedures for Linux use, says John "Maddog" Hall, executive director of the nonprofit group Linux International and an executive with VA Linux.
If any private company designed such a product for Linux, that company would not be in a position to cram that program down the throat of the Linux user community.
Available for download at www.geforce.com, the new R310 drivers were also thoroughly tested with Steam for Linux, the extension of Valve's phenomenally popular Steam gaming platform that officially opened to gamers starting today.
As the market for Linux server systems grows in the service provider community and in universities and laboratories, so does the revenue that can potentially be derived from the servicing and support of those systems.
Johansen testified on Thursday that he announced the successful reverse engineering of a DVD on the mailing list of the Linux Video and DVD Project (LiViD), a user resource center for video- and DVD-related work for Linux.
This is an especially opportune time for Linux to become the OS of choice for many of the tens of thousands of new embedded designs that emerge each year -- you can find out why in Rick Cook's "Embedded Linux Basics" article in LinuxWorld.
It has since been involved in "a number of massive deals for Linux desktops" and they're even in a "massive deal right now for... multi-thousands of units of a desktop opportunity for Linux, " claims Doug Small, worldwide director of open source and Linux marketing at HP.
On a more technical front, we're told the PDK supports the Linux standard SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) to ease in porting and development (Unreal for Linux runs using SDL, for instance), and that developers could even build apps like an audio processor that rely on PDK components but don't show up in the UI at all, or OpenGL-empowered things that aren't necessarily games or in 3D.
"We'd be fools not to worry about large companies coming into our space, " said Chris DiBona, Linux community evangelist for VA Linux.
By coupling its online advertising smarts with mobile Linux software, Google could insure that a business case exists for mobile Linux.
The contract builds on NSA's prior work in developing a set of new security controls for the Linux kernel and NAI Labs' prior work in developing a basic security policy configuration for these security controls and several additional kernel controls.
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