Very little is done quietly in a giant multi-national corporation. Exceptionally high-profile firms like Google undergo even more scrutiny, making it somewhat unusual to discover they've been developing numerous projects — in the open, and Open Source-licensed — that are all but unknown. As odd as it may be, that is exactly the case at Google.
Read more »The Quieter Side of Open Source at Google
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10 Mistakes Google Is Making with Chrome OS
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Google's Chrome OS might be exciting to some, but so far, Google has made some major missteps that could cost the company serious revenue when the operating system is released.
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Psystar Drops Mac Clones for Linux
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The company also said it would resume selling systems "in the coming days." Those machines will run Linux rather than Mac OS X.
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2009: A Linux year in review
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Vincent Danen looks back over the year 2009 at developments in the world of Linux and Open Source. What do you think are the big stories?
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Google Chrome Netbook Specifications Leaked?
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OK, so it might not be quite as talked about as the mythical Apple iTablet, but the Google Chrome OS-based netbook is also creating quite a stir - especially now the tech specs have seen the light of day.
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A decade of Linux
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Between Linux-powered netbooks and Google's Chrome OS, by 2019 perhaps even that will have changed. After all, who would have thought in 1999 that Linux would have quietly become so prevalent throughout computing? Let's take a look at this last decade.
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Google Chrome OS-based netbook tech specs are out
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Believe it or not - the tech specs of the rumoured Google Chrome OS-based netbook are already out and by the sound of it, the netbook looks to me like a high performance machine.
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Linux + Multitouch display = open source 10 fingered goodness
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Thinking about picking up one of those newfangled multitouch displays for your netbook, but holding off because you're worried that there won't be support for multitouch gestures under Linux? It looks like there's nothing to worry about.
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Firefox for mobile 'days away' from launch
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The first mobile phone version of the popular web browser Firefox is "days away" from launch, the head of the project has told the BBC.
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Jolicloud – A Linux Distribution for Netbooks
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My Samsung NC 10 netbook came pre-installed with Microsoft Windows XP. I erased the OS and installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix Karmic Koala on it. However, I soon found out that Karmic Koala was not ready for normal use.
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Linux Support for the HoloPro (Video)
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Very advanced hardware already supports Linux, on which it is demonstrated
Read more »AMD Does RAID On a Chip
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Enterprise Storage Forum: "AMD is adding RAID data protection to its server chips, thanks to an OEM deal with Dot Hill."
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Move supports Linux development on multicore processors
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As part of the move, it will make its Prism software available on MontaVista Linux 6 and Montavista Linux Carrier Grade Edition products. MontaVista is the first commercial Linux provider to be supported by Prism
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VIA's Linux TODO List... Maybe Look Forward To 2011?
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Nearly two years ago at the Linux Foundation Summit in Austin was VIA's most recent announcement about becoming serious with open-source support. This was not VIA's first time they claimed to back an open-source strategy, which led a number of open-source developers to immediately call VIA's open-source strategy a bluff. To date this still is mostly a bluff, but they have produced some fluff.
Read more »Linux or Windows: Most hardware support plans are worthless
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Recently, a user who had replaced Windows on his netbook with Ubuntu Linux discovered that, as far as Best Buy was concerned, he had voided his warranty. For all practical purposes, he had.
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