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.
Before this strategy Nokia had the goal of developing Meego who was an open source Linux platform made with the help of Intel and other hardware makers with the objective of being capable of be instaled on phones, tablets, PCs, GPS, Televisions and making everything syncronized.
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The product, called Primequest, uses up to 32 of Intel 's (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Itanium 2 processors per box and is designed to utilize both Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people )Windows and the open source Linux operating systems.
The software powering the device is built on the open-source Linux kernel and the open-source WebKit Web browser engine, Rathakrishnan says.
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.
Apple should also consider including support for the open-source Linux operating system, as well as Unix variants.
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.
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.
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.
They are likely to remain immune due to the fact that Linux is open source, and because Linux promotes competition.
Hadoop is neither a community-based open source project like Linux or Drupal nor a commercial open core company like Alfresco, or JBoss.
The open-source, Linux-based service has the potential to shake up the wireless industry when it hits phones later this year.
And because Linux is open source, the improvement was made available to all Linux distributions.
The segment offers operating systems, network services and workgroup computing software solutions based on the Linux open source operating system.
GitHub is a version control system based on Git, an open source project started by Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
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Chief among these open-source programmes is Linux, now a real alternative to Microsoft Windows for server computers (and one that even runs on a few aficionados' desktop computers).
As a nonprofit corporation and neutral forum for collaboration, the Bitcoin Foundation follows the successful model of open source bodies like the Linux Foundation and the Tor Project.
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Competition from rival open source operating system, Linux, is stalling Microsoft's growth in the server market, but desktop dominance remains intact: Windows installed in 94% of PCs being sold.
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.
Just as cheap personal computers undermined the mainframe business in the 1980s and open-source programs like Linux and Mysql are challenging Microsoft and Oracle today, outfits like Fastcase are attacking Wexis' stranglehold on legal research from the bottom up.
Our third leading performer was Novell, ahead 40%, now shifting into supporting users of the Linux open-source operating system.
Bioengineers, like computer programmers in the Linux open-source software movement, are encouraged to contribute "bricks" voluntarily, and can order the parts they need over the Internet.
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The company has long been a contributor to the Linux and open source software communities and is well known for its work on open operating systems as well as the open cloud.
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There was a way to do it, and it had to do with the catch that comes with open source--software like Linux that powers millions of desktops and Apache that runs 70% of the country's Web servers.
Yet the popularity of open-source programs such as the Linux operating system continued to grow.
Open-source operating systems such as Linux can do some pretty big jobs.
Linux is an open source operating system developed by independent and corporate programmers worldwide which has much of the functionality of the powerful Unix system.
Traditionally, the Linux and open-source software communities focused on solving the software problems of enterprise and computing markets with a limited choice of processor platforms.
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