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Unisys and Red Hat have announced plans to offer an integrated Linux platform to enterprise customers. According to the companies, the partnership spans an array of initiatives, including joint marketing, customer support, the continued development of open-source roadmaps and training. This announce...

Michael Newdow may not be a household name to the open-source community. The California atheist sued a Sacramento school district to prevent his third-grade daughter from having to recite or listen to the Pledge of Allegiance because it includes the words "under God." But Newdow's case has some inte...

The UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has asked Microsoft to change an ad that claims Linux has been found to be over 10 times more expensive than Windows Server. The group evaluated the truthfulness of the ad after a number of public complaints were filed. In the ad, Microsoft cites figure...

Micro Focus International, a provider of legacy application development and deployment software, announced Wednesday that it will provide a method for migrating legacy applications to HP and IBM Unix and Linux servers. The migration service is part of the company's "Lift and Shift" offering, which c...

Linux Networx has announced that two Department of Defense centers will be using Linux cluster supercomputers from the company to conduct battlefield simulations. The clusters are part of an initiative to modernize the DOD's supercomputing capabilities, said Major Kevin Benedict, program manager at ...

It might be a dubious distinction at best, but it's one that Apple has had for a very long time: second most popular desktop operating system. Now that mantle appears destined to belong to Linux. According to Hewlett-Packard of Palo Alto, California, shipments of computers running desktop Linux shou...

Storage-management software developer Acronis has announced release of its True Image Server for Linux 8.0, the industry's first native Linux disk imaging, backup and bare-metal restore application, the company said. The South San Francisco, California-based company also announced release of a new v...

HP has launched its first pre-installed Linux notebook PC at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, labeling the release a "coming of age" for desktop Linux.

Industry observers have taken positions on rumors that Sun Microsystems might buy Novell. "I don't find the speculation credible," analyst Dan Kusnetzky, vice president of operating systems at International Data Corporation, said. Kusnetzky said such a merger would face problems from potential regul...

Hewlett-Packard will be the first major PC maker to offer a Linux-based notebook computer, the company announced at LinuxWorld in San Francisco. The Compaq nx5000 business notebook PC will be preinstalled with Novell's SuSE Linux 9.1, along with OpenOffice, CD-R/RW support, DVD and media player, wir...

Industry observers yesterday took differing outlooks on rumors that Sun Microsystems might buy Novell. "I don't find the speculation credible," analyst Dan Kusnetzky, vice president of operating systems at International Data Corporation, said. Kusnetzky said such a merger would face problems from po...

Last year, the SCO Group spent most of its annual conference focused on its intellectual property litigation. This year the company is working to emphasize its products and boost enthusiasm for the future of Unix. In an interview with LinuxInsider, the company's CEO Darl McBride noted that 90 percen...

The SCO Group kicked off its annual technology summit with a dual focus on launching new products and fighting IBM through litigation. Because it is being held at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, the company used several movie clips to introduce its two key speakers, senior VP of worldwide marketing Jeff...

After a growth surge that contributed to the decline in market share of Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) for the first time in six years, usage of the Mozilla browser flattened out during much of this month. "The general trend over the last two weeks, at least, seems to have mostly flattened out," G...

A man in Florida has been indicted on 144 charges of conspiracy, unauthorized access to a protected computer, device fraud, money laundering and obstruction of justice, after hacking into the database of a high profile marketing company. Scott Levine, 45, is accused of breaking into systems at Acxio...

With the news of its first big government deal, Indian Linux vendor ELX has come a bit closer to meeting its sales goal of 100,000 seats of its desktop Linux product BizDesk 4.0 this financial year. "An Indian state court project has asked vendors to supply 600 PCs with ELX Biz Desk 4.0 preloaded in...

Linux Networx today announced that the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts has chosen the company for implementation of a Linux-based cluster computing system. The system, an Evolocity II Linux Networx cluster, will be used to evaluate the suitability of cluster technology for broader...

A federal judge in Nevada has granted AutoZone's request to put SCO Group's copyright infringement case over the auto parts retailer's switch from Unix to Linux on hold. The auto parts retailer had asked the federal court in Nevada to stay the case until SCO's other, related lawsuits against IBM an...

Former Red Hat and Cygnus Solutions executives Kim Knuttila and Eric Troan announced yesterday that they had formed Specifix, an open-source company producing Linux solutions. The new company brings together other executives and experts from the Linux and GNU open-source development tools communitie...

Developers at last week's JavaOne conference got a chance to check the progress that tools vendors have made in their long quest to ease Java programming so they can better compete against Microsoft. For starters, conference sponsor Sun Microsystems tried to reassert itself as a major player with th...