Linux, the free, open source operating system, continues to hover at a little over one percent.
The segment offers operating systems, network services and workgroup computing software solutions based on the Linux open source operating system.
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.
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.
China is working with software firm Canonical on an open-source operating system customised for Chinese users.
He believed that aligning standards around an open-source operating system would drive innovation across the mobile industry.
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With the increasing popularity of the open-source operating system, customer demands on Linux are changing, Dryhoff said.
So an open-source operating system like Android will do well in this market because they save on licensing fees.
Our third leading performer was Novell, ahead 40%, now shifting into supporting users of the Linux open-source operating system.
The fate of Meego, a joint venture with Intel to create an open-source operating system, is less clear.
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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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Ouya promises an open source Android operating system, and made early headlines by saying that the console would be completely hackable.
There are ubuntu education funds, ubuntu tents at development conferences, ubuntu villages, an ubuntu university - and it's now the name of an open-source operating system.
Google decided to make Android an open-source operating system, which meant that third parties could take the code, tweak it for their own needs, and sell competing Android-based products.
Still, that has not deterred other vendors from experimenting, or at least considering the open-source operating system, as multiple reports of Firefox, Sailfish, and Tizen plan to release new Linux-based experiences in the future.
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Last month at Mobile World Congress the company said it was on track to bring out a phone that runs on the Tizen open-source operating system that it has helped develop in collaboration with Intel.
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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.
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.
As a rival open-source mobile operating system, Symbian was often compared to Android, sometimes unfavorably.
Apple should also consider including support for the open-source Linux operating system, as well as Unix variants.
Other areas of focus include MeeGo, the open-source mobile operating system that Intel and Nokia are jointly developing.
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Acer is also seriously considering releasing a tablet based on the open-source mobile operating system Meego, according to two Acer product managers.
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In 2008, Google launched the open-source Android operating system, licensing mobile software to any and all device makers (at no cost), allowing others to tweak their code and innovate without permission.
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.
Linux, the "open-source" pc operating system, has a different sort of cultism, one more disposed to compatibility.
Most of these vendors chose Unix because it began as a free operating system with open source.
Like other open source software, such as the operating system Linux, Firefox's code is freely available for any programmer to examine and improve.
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.
Though Symbian's certainly not getting as much share of the mobile discussion these days as some of its smaller competitors, it's certainly important to keep in mind that these guys have software deployed on literally hundreds of millions of devices, making this perhaps the largest-scale conversion of a closed operating system to open source in history.
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Yet the popularity of open-source programs such as the Linux operating system continued to grow.
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