Linux devs strike back at Microsoft patent claims, Jul 02, 2009

In 2007, Microsoft shook up the Linux community with claims that open source allegedly infringes on as many as 235 of Microsoft's patents. Until this year, Microsoft had not actually filed any kind of legal suits on those patents - which changed with the TomTom case.

Google's Chrome browser has only officially been available for Linux and Mac users since early June. Since then, Google has updated the browser once, keeping it at the same version number for Windows, Linux and Mac. That is now changing with the 3.0.190.x release for the dev-channel version of Chrome.

With Oracle set to acquire Sun and gain stewardship over Java, there are many in the tech world with an opinion on how the database giant should handle its new relationship with the programming language.

Virtualization is a key technology for Linux vendor Red Hat which earlier this year outlined a broad new virtualization roadmap including new products and technologies. Those efforts are now starting to bear fruit, with Red Hat this week indicating that it's now entering the beta phase of deployment.

Latest Red Hat community Linux sports faster speed and virtualization features of interest to enterprise users.

If managers take the time to prepare -- both themselves and their users -- changing the operating system need not be painful.

While security features are getting an update, the core of the company's networking OS could see a shift to Linux within months.

Microsoft might be betting big on Windows 7, the next version of its flagship operating system, but to Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth, the upcoming release is really an opportunity for Linux to shine.

JBoss CTO Sacha Labourey is leaving Red Hat. Labourey had been at JBoss for the past eight years, nearly three of which were under Red Hat's ownership. Labourey's departure comes over two years after JBoss founder Marc Fleury left Red Hat in 2007.

Prominent open source executives make the case for lower-cost alternatives during the economic crisis.

There was a time when having an IT certification was the key to getting a job -- that time may be here again. Back in 1999, when many people were out getting MCSE's and CNEs (remember those?), Red Hat launched its Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) program.

IBM is reportedly in talks to acquire Sun for a whopping $6.5 billion. What's it mean for the future of Linux and Unix?

At one point or another nearly every human that has ever used email has benefited from the open source Sendmail mail transfer agent(MTA). Sendmail at one point was THE MTA (included with every Linux distro) and like everyone else I used it everyday too. Today Sendmail claims that it is on over 35 percent of all Internet servers, and delivers over 65 percent of all email messages sent globally.

Linux-based networking vendor Vyatta is out today with its Vyatta Community Edition 5 (VC5) release, including a host of new security and performance improvements.

While Linux is widely used in servers and is growing slowly on the desktop side, the embedded market for Linux is one that continues to have momentum. One such proof point for came this week from the year end financial results for embedded operating system vendor Wind River.

Without much fanfare or self-congratulations, networking giant Cisco Systems has become one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel and an active contributor to the broader open source community.

New effort by vendor Coverity promises to map over 2,500 open source apps.

The variety of Linux distros may be ensuring Linux grabs an ever-increasing share of the enterprise server OS market, Windows pretends to compete against itself, and Apple, well, Apple just doesn't bother.

One of the cornerstones of the landmark interoperability deal between Novell and Microsoft was, and is, virtualization.

What exactly are the characteristics of user-friendliness? And does stressing user-friendliness mean ignoring other values -- perhaps equally important ones?