Embedded OS trends points to Linux...sometimes
While the use of Linux continues to sail along at a nice clip, the number of people kicking the tires is shrinking, for all the right reasons.
The Linux operating system (OS) has earned…
NYSE places buy on Linux, hold on Unix
The New York Stock Exchange is investing heavily in x86-based Linux systems and blade servers as it builds out the NYSE Hybrid Market trading system that it launched last year. Flexibility and…
Netherlands Adopts Open-Source Software
The Dutch government has set a soft deadline of April 2008 for its agencies to start using open-source software — programs that anyone can modify and that work with a variety of technology — the…
The Top 5 Most Overlooked Open Source Vulnerabilities for 2007
For year-end 2007, we have compiled the Top 5 Most Overlooked Open Source Vulnerabilities encountered during 2007. We came up with this list after reviewing over 300 million lines of code and…
The World Series of Linux: Round 1
For untold thousands of developers around the world, it's not a game. For solution providers and their customers, it's not a game.
But the world of desktop Linux has become increasingly…
Iranian computing center removes photos of Linux super computer
The Iranian computing research center that says it built a supercomputer with Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Opteron processors has removed from its Web site photographs showing a possible link to…
Linux Reaches 'The Show'
Unlike Apple or Microsoft, the Linux community doesn't hold launch events with rock stars when a new operating system is released. Customers don't line up overnight outside retail stores throwing…
Netherlands supports open standards and open source
Yesterday, the Tweede Kamer (Second Chamber) of the Dutch parliament adopted a plan to switch the country's public sector over to open standards. At the same time, authorities will be called upon…
A child's view of the $100 laptop
What will a child in the UK make of a laptop designed to help children in the developing world? Rory Cellan-Jones brought an XO home to find out.
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Robots, mazes, and subsumption architecture with Java
Find out how to create light-seeking and maze-navigating virtual robots in the Java language using Simbad — an open source robot simulator based on Java 3D technology — to realize the robotics-…