CUPERTINO, California—October 16, 2007—Apple® today announced that Mac OS® X Leopard will go on sale Friday, October 26 at 6:00 p.m. at Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, and that Apple’s online store is now accepting pre-orders. Leopard is packed with more than 300 new features and introduces a brand new desktop with Stacks, […]
As competing Linux operating systems such as Ubuntu and Novell SUSE snap up most of the headlines in the Linux world, Mandriva hopes to grab some attention for itself with the release of its latest operating system. A news post on the Mandriva Club web side, a Mandriva-supported user group, reveals Mandriva Linux 2008 […]
North Rhine-Westphalia has selected Novell for the supply of its IT infrastructure. Novell already supports 300,000 students in the states of Bavaria and Thuringia; the new deal will add another 560,000 students and thousands of employees. It’s not clear how many of the students actually will use the desktop Linux software.
The larger North Rhine-Westphalia contract […]
Dell Inc will soon offer more personal computers that use the Linux operating system instead of Microsoft Corp’s Windows, said the founder of a company that offers Linux support services.
Mark Shuttleworth, who created a version of Linux software named Ubuntu, said Dell is happy with the demand it has seen for Linux PCs that were […]
Now that the computer industry has its first accounting of how many patents Microsoft says are violated by open-source software, the question for many tech vendors is how aggressively the software giant will begin enforcement. And judging from the reaction in the blogosphere, the new disclosures inspire fear.
Microsoft has already begun collecting payments and gaining […]
Its worries were aired on Friday in the delayed regulatory filing of its annual report for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2006.
The 144-page document posted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Web site contained redacted versions of Novell’s business, patent and technology agreements with Microsoft, which it signed in November 2006.
While much of […]
Novell has published details of its landmark November 2006 Linux partnership agreements with Microsoft.
Novell published on Friday redacted versions of the three agreements it signed with Microsoft in its annual 10K filings to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, providing the public with its first detailed look into a deal that some see as critical […]
ROUND ROCK, Texas – Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) today made it official, unveiling three consumer systems — the XPSTM 410n and DimensionTM E520n desktops and the InspironTM E1505n notebook — with the Ubuntu 7.04 Linux distribution factory installed.
Available in the U.S. after 4:00 p.m. CDT today at www.dell.com/open, the systems target the Linux enthusiast […]
Earlier this week in an interview with Fortune magazine, Microsoft council Brad Smith mentioned a list of 235 patents that the company claims the open source is currently infringing upon. Namely 42 violations for the Linux kernel, 65 infringements by the GUI and 45 violations by Open Office programs.
Torvalds, the “father of Linux”, has come […]
Linus Torvalds, lead developer of the Linux kernel, has a sharp retort to Microsoft executives’ statements in a Fortune magazine article that Linux and other open-source code violate 235 Microsoft patents.
“It’s certainly a lot more likely that Microsoft violates patents than Linux does,” said Torvalds, holder of the Linux trademark. If the source code for […]