Linux News and Articles

Steve Ballmer's deal with the Catalonian government is seen as a leverage against their existing Open Source strategy.

HP and Canonical are working together to get Ubuntu certified for HPs Proliant servers.

Xandros has launched an ARM based Linux version for netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices at the Mobile World Congress in Spain's Barcelona.

Last week Novell announced a layoff of almost 100 employees "in response to the global economic downturn," without any further details. New information now brings into question the software house's commitment to openSUSE.

The deal is closed: Debian 5.0, code-named Lenny, is officially available.

Nils Magnus of Linux Magazine Online pulled together the heads of three Linux distros for an interview and put them in a video: openSUSE's Joe Brockmeier, Debian's Steve McIntyre and Red Hat's Max Spevack.

Sunnyvale CA company Azingo is to develop a Linux-based platform for mobile phone provider Vodafone.

Home PCs have been available in Cuba only since last year, with 20% already using the Linux operating system. In five years, this should rise to 50%.

Corrections and security updates for the current stable Debian have been released.