Among so many other things, the operating system gave rise to the modern open source movement.
With the increasing popularity of the open-source operating system, customer demands on Linux are changing, Dryhoff said.
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.
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.
Or having the integrated, open-source software system that allows access to the two 300 Legacy systems of software.
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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 segment offers operating systems, network services and workgroup computing software solutions based on the Linux open source operating system.
The company has one product called Acquia Network, which is a set of tools and services for companies using the open source Drupal system.
Dries Buytaert is chief technology officer at Acquia, a commercial open source software company providing products, services and technical support for the open source Drupal social publishing system.
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However, the biggest challenge to Sun's dominance may come not from the old enemy in Redmond, but from Linux, a free operating system that is a product of the open-source movement.
Yet the popularity of open-source programs such as the Linux operating system continued to grow.
Linux, the free, open source operating system, continues to hover at a little over one percent.
Our third leading performer was Novell, ahead 40%, now shifting into supporting users of the Linux open-source operating system.
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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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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Waiting in the wings are any number of open-source smartphones based on the nifty Linux operating system.
InterVideo has made it clear that it is issuing a legal player that won't push the DVD industry's buttons -- that is, one that licenses the Content Scrambling System (CSS) -- and the software thus cannot be open source.
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.
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.
The second was the news from the team working with the open source elements of WebOS, who have the former Palm operating system running on another Nexus device, the Nexus 7.
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Linux, the "open-source" pc operating system, has a different sort of cultism, one more disposed to compatibility.
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.
Beth Noveck, former deputy chief technology officer in the Obama administration, called for an open-source approach to rethinking government, making its operating system as accessible to everyone as the code that powers the Arduino device.
In vowing to keep selling Symbian phones for the next two years, while turning MeeGo into an open source project and continuing to develop phones for that operating system as well, the company has created added complication, rather than a clear path forward.
Like other open source software, such as the operating system Linux, Firefox's code is freely available for any programmer to examine and improve.
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