Microsoft reached an agreement that will allow its Windows operating system, with which most people are familiar, to work with the open source Linux system used by rival Novell.
Sendmail's new NT 3.0 product provides NT administrators with security features, like header scanning, relay access control, and better defenses against theoretical attacks, to which Unix and Linux system administrators are already accustomed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By the end of the year Sun will make its cherished Solaris computer operating system free, too, opening it up much like the free Linux operating system that took business from Sun in recent years.
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.
Yet the popularity of open-source programs such as the Linux operating system continued to grow.
The developer tools are designed for both Wind River products and the Linux operating system.
The Linux operating system that Red Hat's business is built around is free to share and distribute.
Waiting in the wings are any number of open-source smartphones based on the nifty Linux operating system.
Apple should also consider including support for the open-source Linux operating system, as well as Unix variants.
One such tool, the Ramen worm, attacks computers that run a particular version of the Linux operating system.
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Examples: selling solid-state hard drives on certain notebooks, or offering laptops preloaded with a Linux operating system called Ubuntu.
Today, the Linux operating system is touted in new ads from IBM, an event that was unimaginable just a few years back.
Most others using ARM-based chips are customizing different variants of the Linux operating system, said Steve Mollenkopf, president of Qualcomm's chip unit.
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.
In response to demands from Linux geeks, the company said it will begin selling desktop PCs running the Ubuntu Linux operating system last month.
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.
Complicated enterprises, like maintaining Wikipedia or building a Linux operating system, now can be accomplished with little or no corporate management structure at all.
The ballyhooed Linux operating system, which is free, has made inroads in the server market, but not on the desktop, for want of applications.
Motorola will base some new phones on the Linux operating system.
For example, Apple's NetInfo technology is now available on the Linux operating system and Sassafras Software has built AppleTalk networking into its KeyServer product, Bereskin added.
Ubuntu is based on the Linux operating system and its development and use is governed by an open ethic that emphasises the sharing of core computer code.
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.
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.
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