The first Linux customers were attracted by the quality and the price of Linux.
And because Linux is open source, the improvement was made available to all Linux distributions.
With SuSE, a Linux distributor, the connection is obvious, but MP3.com's interest in Linux-based ReiserFS is less clear-cut.
First spotted by UK Linux blog, OMGUbuntu, Valve has released a native Linux beta for its first-person puzzler, Portal.
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Linux advocates were angered because, as part of the deal, Microsoft agreed not to sue users of Novell's Linux distribution.
They are likely to remain immune due to the fact that Linux is open source, and because Linux promotes competition.
By coupling its online advertising smarts with mobile Linux software, Google could insure that a business case exists for mobile Linux.
"Arch Linux ARM is a proud contributor to the Marvell SMILE Plug, " said Kevin Mihelich, Lead Developer of Arch Linux ARM.
"We'd be fools not to worry about large companies coming into our space, " said Chris DiBona, Linux community evangelist for VA Linux.
Russel Coombes, HP's Linux business manager in the UK, said the company was responding to growing demand for Linux-based products in Asia.
This explains Microsoft's strangest response to Linux: its doom-laden warnings that Linux and other open-source software will destroy the commercial industry entirely.
Day job at VA Linux Systems, a top Linux software firm that rose a record 700% the day it went public in December.
If they simply want to leverage Linux on Intel, they have a chance against the giants because the Linux market is just emerging.
If Linux on desktops is not penetrating, but Linux is penetrating everywhere else, why not just move the desktop OS onto everything else?
Linux is front of mind for many large computer companies this week, as the annual Linux World technology conference takes place in New York.
In response to demands from Linux geeks, the company said it will begin selling desktop PCs running the Ubuntu Linux operating system last month.
The Linux Foundation provides a neutral environment where work on Linux, mobile and embedded development, open cloud, and more can be accelerated and advanced.
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"The Linux Foundation is happy to see ARM and Linaro increase their investment in Linux, " said Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation.
Note that they don't say "Linux-powered Treo" LinuxDevices.com seems to think that Palm is going to introduce a line of Linux-powered "feature phones".
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Dell doesn't break out sales of Linux products but a spokesperson recently said that about 12% of its servers ship with Linux installed on them.
"Linux will need to have some champion, " HTC CEO Peter Chou said in an interview with Forbes.com in September, admitting that he's eyeing mobile Linux.
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.
"We are hoping that the open-source community will embrace this and that the Linux community will a build a better Linux, " said IBM spokeswoman Lisa Lanspery.
The plug-ins will allow users to run leading Linux distributions on Virtual Server 2005, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.
Now that some PC OEMs are offering computers with Linux preinstalled (or even just selling units without Windows installed), Linux saves you money on every client you buy.
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Linux distributors have no interest in forcing Linux standards on the IT community by tying applications to the operating systems without regard for the safety of their customers.
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.
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.
Microsoft disputes this, pointing to a company-funded study which found that over several years Linux servers were no cheaper to run than Windows servers, largely because Linux experts demand higher wages.
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