Reiser is keen to broaden the appeal of ReiserFS away from being solely based on Linux.
With the increasing popularity of the open-source operating system, customer demands on Linux are changing, Dryhoff said.
Currently, roughly one in six Intel-based servers is deployed on Linux, Occleshaw said, citing figures from International Data Corp.
As a journalist, he has written about both, and he currently writes a weekly column on Linux for ZDNet.
The only way to earn money on Linux is to provide additional services.
Thanks to Google preserving Flash on Linux through Chrome, that dream is alive in at least a rudimentary form.
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If Valve does find success with Steam on Linux and gets the messaging right, Microsoft may start looking over its shoulder.
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Linaro's work will help developers and manufacturers provide consumers with more choice, more responsive devices and more diverse applications on Linux-based systems.
For more information on how GeForce GTX GPUs are dramatically changing the way games are played and experienced on Linux, visit www.geforce.com.
Another reason that China may be looking favourably on Linux is because it wants to build up its own IT infrastructure, says IDC's Kusnetzsky.
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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You already know that Half-Life 2 for Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC and OS X is excellent, but have you tried it on Linux?
Of course, Intel may just be unhappy that the computers will use AMD chips, and Gates might be fuming that they will run on Linux instead of Windows.
Of the three largest handset makers, both Motorola and Samsung have placed big bets on Linux-powered handsets, with Nokia trying out a smaller number of smart phones and tablets.
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.
As IDC points out, Samsung also has its allegiances spread across Android, Windows Phone, and later this year, the Tizen platform, which, like Bada, is also based on Linux.
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"No one runs large, million-hits-per-day Web sites on Linux, " Occleshaw said, adding that IBM would still recommend its AIX Unix-based server to customers that wanted to run large, serious enterprise applications.
Red Hat hopes its support of multiple open source applications running on Linux will make the platform more attractive to corporate network managers looking for cheaper alternatives to commercial server operating systems.
But companies that focus exclusively on Linux will have the edge in serving customers, and DiBona is confident there will be enough business for them to coexist with the largest service organizations.
Enter Spark, a seven-inch slate that comes running the Plasma Active UX, an open-source OS based on Linux kernel, KDE's multi-platform Plasma environment and a dash of Qt for good measure.
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The ever-confident Torvalds told panel moderator Catherine Heenan, an anchorwoman for a San Francisco evening news program, that the sudden spotlight thrust on Linux was not surprising, given its technological merits and the fervor of its acolytes.
The latest complaint surfacing around the game in various forums and on reddit, is that gamers playing on Linux using Wine to run the game are being banned for no reason and not having their purchase refunded to them.
Microsoft is quite confident of its leadership status on the Netbook front, boasting earlier this year of 96 percent attach rate for Windows and making other, more recent claims of return rates on Linux netbooks that are "like four or five times higher" than their Windows equivalents.
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While Toshiba has shipped tablet PCs for years and is now testing the waters of an embedded platform, the Archos 9 tablet PC crowns a new line that includes several non-PC tablets sold by the company, including a 5" tablet powered by Android and a 7" media tablet based on the company's proprietary UI build on Linux.
The whole affair began when teenager Jon Johansen wrote DeCSS in order to view DVDs on a Linux machine.
The segment offers operating systems, network services and workgroup computing software solutions based on the Linux open source operating system.
The SMILE Plug leverages an open platform based on Arch Linux for ARM, the Plugmin administration app and the Stanford SMILE Server.
The type refers to how a hard drive is formatted, which has a direct impact on how Linux reads and writes files.
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Additionally, the SMILE Plug Computer features an open platform based on Arch Linux for ARM, the Plugmin administration app and the Stanford SMILE Junction Server.
Ubuntu is the most popular operating system to be based on the Linux kernel - the code that lets software and hardware work together.
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