Its Sparc computer chip and Solaris operating system have been made less relevant by Microsoft Windows, Intel chips and the open-source Linux operating system.
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.
Apple should also consider including support for the open-source Linux operating system, as well as Unix variants.
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.
Much advice on offer online suggests souping up the specification of a netbook so it can run Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, rather than the free, open-source Linux system that is offered as standard on many netbooks.
Palm hopes to broaden the Foleo's market by giving it an open Linux-based operating system that allows developers to tinker with it so it can be paired with other companies' smart phones, including Motorola 's (nyse: MOT - news - people ) Q and RIM's BlackBerrys.
The computer runs on open-sourced operating system Linux and can be hooked up to a monitor, keyboard and mouse.
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Our third leading performer was Novell, ahead 40%, now shifting into supporting users of the Linux open-source operating system.
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.
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.
Ubuntu is the most popular operating system to be based on the Linux kernel - the code that lets software and hardware work together.
OtherOS enabled the machine to run Linux, the alternative operating system to Microsoft Windows and Apple OS. Running Linux essentially turned the PS3 from a single-purpose gaming console into a desktop computer, which people could use to write programs.
Yet the popularity of open-source programs such as the Linux operating system continued to grow.
Upstart Linux, the open-source operating system that Microsoft speaks of so fearfully, currently runs less than 3% of all PCs.
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Rubin's team is building custom mobile-phone software atop the free Linux operating system that will bind the phone tightly to Google's online applications and advertising services, sources say.
Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and software boss, regards this interface crisis as one of the biggest challenges for his firm, alongside the security holes in Windows and, perhaps, the threat from Linux, an open-source operating system.
Waiting in the wings are any number of open-source smartphones based on the nifty Linux operating system.
The Linux operating system can do some pretty complicated stuff--just ask Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people )--reliably.
The Linux operating system can do some pretty complicated stuff--just ask Google--reliably.
Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) and Matsushita, both of Japan, said the operating system will be based on open-source Linux and will be available in March.
With the increasing popularity of the open-source operating system, customer demands on Linux are changing, Dryhoff said.
Linux, the "open-source" pc operating system, has a different sort of cultism, one more disposed to compatibility.
Most others using ARM-based chips are customizing different variants of the Linux operating system, said Steve Mollenkopf, president of Qualcomm's chip unit.
Microsoft is hated chiefly because it represents the opposite model, proprietary software, and because its operating system, Windows, is the main rival to Linux, the best-known open-source software today.
Founded in 1981, Wind River struggled early on, first from the meltdown in the telecommunications business, and then from increasing competition from both Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Windows CE operating system and Linux.
For now, PalmSource will develop the Linux-based OS in concert with its existing operating system, offering it as "another flavor" of the Palm OS. There are no plans to stop development of PalmSource's latest "Cobalt" OS 6, though Limp concedes it could be eliminated at some point in the future.
Although Linux-based, the XO-1's operating system appears to have been very much simplified, with menu bars and icons being kept to a bare minimum.
SourceXchange's mission is to help computer hackers who contribute to open-source software, such as the popular operating system Linux, to link up with computer companies.
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.
Having a global services organization backing Linux can only broaden its acceptance as an enterprise-class operating system, others argue.
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