Date: Sat, 11. February 2012 08:05:35

itwbennett writes "As details about new features in Windows 8 started to be discussed in the Building 8 blog and bandied about in Linux/Windows forums, Linux users were quick to chime in with a hearty 'Linux had that first' — even for things that were just a natural evolution, like native support for USB 3.0. So ask not 'did Linux have this first', but 'does Windows 8 do it better?'" Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Sat, 14. March 2009 15:05:21

Anonymous writes "According to Channelweb, the bloom might be off the rose in the Novell-Microsoft relationship: the two companies didn't sign a single, solitary large customer to a Novell Linux deal during the most recent quarter. 'So Novell, one of the biggest Linux distributors in the world, and Microsoft, one of the biggest companies in world history, couldn't find a single large customer on Planet Earth to buy into Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server software. Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian has stepped up and, rather than point fingers at Microsoft for that performance, put the blame on his company and its inability to strengthen its reseller channel.'"pa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/13/2032239amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/03/13/2032239"/a/ppa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/13/2032239amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/WFrEkvWoYWghsmuZ1U9UPblEViU/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/WFrEkvWoYWghsmuZ1U9UPblEViU/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/1mALvReI620" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Fri, 4. December 2009 15:06:44

Agram writes "Take a netbook, Wiimotes, Nunchuks, and hemispherical speakers (which were once IKEA salad bowls), toss it up with some Ubuntu goodness and what you get is Virginia Tech's L2Ork, the world's first Linux-based laptop orchestra. With its affordable design and support from the Linux community, L2Ork hopes to bring laptop orchestras to K-12 education and beyond. So, regardless whether you wish to hear how L2Ork might sound or to learn how to build your own Linux-based *Ork infrastructure, perhaps this is a good opportunity to reopen the age-old debate: is Linux finally ready for some serious audio work?"pa href="http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/09/12/03/2018253/Introducing-L2Ork-Worlds-First-Linux-Laptop-Orchestra?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/12/03/2018253"/a/ppa href="http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/09/12/03/2018253/Introducing-L2Ork-Worlds-First-Linux-Laptop-Orchestra?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/285DFxE3hYa0HvkSiqbx9Aow0Ts/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/285DFxE3hYa0HvkSiqbx9Aow0Ts/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/285DFxE3hYa0HvkSiqbx9Aow0Ts/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/285DFxE3hYa0HvkSiqbx9Aow0Ts/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/OLdafyuOKuU" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Sat, 1. November 2008 15:04:55

nerdyH writes "Motorola will ditch its MotoMAGX Linux stack and UIQ Symbian stack in favor of Google's Android Linux/Java stack and Windows Mobile 6.5 and 7, it announced today. The news comes after five years selling millions of Linux phones in Asia, and after a year during which many of Motorola's top US phones used the homegrown Linux stack. Motorola's current Linux phones in the US include the RAZR2 v8, E8, EM30, U9, ZN4, and ZN5." This also comes alongside news that Motorola's financial hardships are causing them to cut 3,000 jobs. It also puts into perspective their recent plans to hire hundreds of Android developers.pa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/31/2320258amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/10/31/2320258"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/31/2320258amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/hOHNCoC6OzqCgO51-ZYvSyG4Evk/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/hOHNCoC6OzqCgO51-ZYvSyG4Evk/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Wgfr9bRP_qE" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Wed, 9. September 2009 15:05:05

mnmlst notes a Wall Street Journal story (picked up at Total Telecom) on the move of some patents originally held by Microsoft to the Open Invention Network, where they will join a portfolio whose purpose is to inoculate open source companies against patent trolls. OIN is near a deal to buy 22 patents from another patent-protective group, Allied Security Trust, whose members include Verizon, Cisco, and HP. AST won the patents in a private auction Microsoft put on earlier. An AST executive says that "Microsoft presented the patents to potential bidders in its auction as relating to Linux." While OIN's acquisition of the patents will act to protect the Linux community, AST, by contrast, exists to protect only its corporate members, not the community as a whole. But by selling the patents to OIN, they are cooperating in the protection of Linux. And by allowing the patents to go to AST in the first place, Microsoft may (the article implies) be signaling at least their lack of active intent to disrupt the Linux marketplace.pa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/08/213217/Microsoft-Letting-Patents-Move-To-Linux-Firms?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/09/08/213217"/a/ppa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/08/213217/Microsoft-Letting-Patents-Move-To-Linux-Firms?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/X2NcQqjE6oZwSYMh4wjzJfMDGWc/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/X2NcQqjE6oZwSYMh4wjzJfMDGWc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/X2NcQqjE6oZwSYMh4wjzJfMDGWc/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/X2NcQqjE6oZwSYMh4wjzJfMDGWc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/JXa6ySrSHnc" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Tue, 14. April 2009 17:54:12

Canonical, the company that sponsors the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has attacked a Microsoft blogger's claims about why Windows netbooks outsell their Linux counterparts. Canonical, the company that sponsors the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has attacked a Microsoft blogger's claims about why Windows netbooks outsell their Linux counterparts. ...

Date: Mon, 18. January 2010 15:05:21

swandives writes "The Linux.conf.au is in full-swing in Wellington, New Zealand, and Computerworld Australia has an interview with Jon Corbet in the leadup to his Kernel Report. The latest kernel release is due early March and will include reversed-engineered drivers for Nvidia chipsets."pa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/01/18/0257232/Next-Linux-Kernel-Due-Early-March?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/01/18/0257232"/a/ppa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/01/18/0257232/Next-Linux-Kernel-Due-Early-March?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DNhawVTcc6B7cEqZpJA-w-wxopc/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DNhawVTcc6B7cEqZpJA-w-wxopc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DNhawVTcc6B7cEqZpJA-w-wxopc/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DNhawVTcc6B7cEqZpJA-w-wxopc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/hvthtPRyw9Y" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Tue, 16. August 2011 08:04:56

itwbennett writes "Linux has become a dominant player in finance thanks to its ability to pass messages very quickly, said Linux kernel contributor Christoph Lameter. 'The trading shops saw that the lowest-latency solutions would only be possible with Linux,' Lameter said. 'The older Unixes couldn't move as fast as Linux did.' One key attribute was the TCP/IP stack, the configuration of which determines how fast a message can be passed between two systems. Linux also offers financial firms the ability to modify the source code to further speed performance. 'It depends on how daring the exchange is,' he said, noting that NASDAQ uses a modified version of the Gentoo Linux distribution. Lameter will discuss how Linux became widely adopted by financial exchanges at the LinuxCon conference in Vancouver this week." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Wed, 6. May 2009 03:08:39

ruphus13 writes "When Mark Shuttleworth was asked what role WINE will play in Ubuntu's success, he said that Ubuntu cannot simply be a better platform to run Windows apps. From the post, according to Shuttleworth, '[Windows and Linux] both play an important role but fundamentally, the free software ecosystem needs to thrive on its own rules. it is *different* to the proprietary software universe. We need to make a success of our own platform on our own terms. if Linux is just another way to run Windows apps, we can't win. OS/2 tried that ...' The post goes on to say, 'Linux simply isn't Windows (nor is Windows Linux) and to expect fundamentally different approaches (and I'm not just thinking closed versus open) to look, feel, and operate the same way is senseless.'"pa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/05/1546230amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/05/05/1546230"/a/ppa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/05/1546230amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MzWxZyIzl_nWo3QiHtY0mzlDkq0/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MzWxZyIzl_nWo3QiHtY0mzlDkq0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MzWxZyIzl_nWo3QiHtY0mzlDkq0/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MzWxZyIzl_nWo3QiHtY0mzlDkq0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/fu8gjWha6uk" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Wed, 10. February 2010 15:05:50

An anonymous reader writes "Ksplice, the company based on the MIT Ksplice project, is now offering its 'never reboot' service for Red Hat, Debian, and other Linux distros. You subscribe and get real-time kernel security updates that apply in-memory instead of rebooting. Last summer we discussed the free service for Ubuntu. Cool tech, but will people really pay $4 a month for this?"pa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/2341249/A-Never-Reboot-Service-For-Linux?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/02/09/2341249"/a/ppa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/2341249/A-Never-Reboot-Service-For-Linux?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/awaznxuM5m-9X5UYGWiR926bcrk/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/awaznxuM5m-9X5UYGWiR926bcrk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/awaznxuM5m-9X5UYGWiR926bcrk/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/awaznxuM5m-9X5UYGWiR926bcrk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/NJ-k8LxZAcw" height="1" width="1"/