"We'd be fools not to worry about large companies coming into our space, " said Chris DiBona, Linux community evangelist for VA Linux.
Day job at VA Linux Systems, a top Linux software firm that rose a record 700% the day it went public in December.
"The Linux Foundation is happy to see ARM and Linaro increase their investment in Linux, " said Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation.
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.
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.
Further, IBM announced a deal with open source company Red Hat Software to develop Linux in emerging markets by offering a combination of Red Hat Linux and supporting documentation, and IBM's new Linux skill-building tutorials on its site.
Curiouser still, these new phones will reportedly run on Wind River Linux rather than the new Linux-based version of the Palm OS that PalmSource is working on (probably because the new Palm OS won't be ready until next year at the earliest).
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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.
Further, IBM announced a deal with open source company Red Hat Software (nasdaq: RHAT - news - people ) to develop Linux in emerging markets by offering a combination of Red Hat Linux and supporting documentation, and IBM's new Linux skill-building tutorials on its site.
They are likely to remain immune due to the fact that Linux is open source, and because Linux promotes competition.
"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.
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.
The antitrust concern apparently surrounds the conditions of Microsoft's Corel investment, and whether or not Microsoft bullied Corel to drop its Linux-based applications, because the Linux operating system competes with Microsoft's Windows operating system.
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.
If Linux on desktops is not penetrating, but Linux is penetrating everywhere else, why not just move the desktop OS onto everything else?
Linux backer IBM will introduce its first two Linux-based thin clients at this week's show and will host a forum in which users can exchange information about IBM's Network Station series of thin clients.
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.
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 first Linux customers were attracted by the quality and the price of Linux.
First spotted by UK Linux blog, OMGUbuntu, Valve has released a native Linux beta for its first-person puzzler, Portal.
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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.
The companies trying to build businesses around the Linux operating system are also stepping up efforts, called United Linux, to create standard editions of the software and to ensure skills are transferable across its different varieties.
The keynote was followed by technical presentations from system architects, CTOs, and CEOs from major embedded-Linux companies, as well as an afternoon keynote entitled "Linux -- The Embedded Cinderella" from Jim Ready, CEO and founder of MontaVista.
And because Linux is open source, the improvement was made available to all Linux distributions.
By coupling its online advertising smarts with mobile Linux software, Google could insure that a business case exists for mobile Linux.
If they simply want to leverage Linux on Intel, they have a chance against the giants because the Linux market is just emerging.
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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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.
Torvalds, who keeps control of the Linux kernel, or core functionality, promised that the next version of Linux would run on servers with more than one processor, a big step up in computing power.
On January 4th, Linus Torvalds, the Finnish programmer who co-ordinates the development of Linux (see article), quietly released the latest version of the Linux kernel the software that, as its name suggests, is at the core of the operating system.
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