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Google Chrome OS: Q&AFor those who don't mind digging a little deeper into their computer, there are various versions of Linux, the open source operating system. Linux is free but still remains relatively specialised. However, Chrome OS itself is built on Linux... In this article: Google Chrome OS, Google, Linux, Microsoft, Cloud computing, Apple, and Richmond |
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Business Wire Entertainment News | 2 days ago
CodeWeavers Releases CrossOver Games 8.1 for Mac and Linux
...assault of zombie playtesters on their headquarters, CodeWeavers, Inc., a leading developer of software products that turn Mac OS X and Linux into Windows-compatible operating systems, today announced the release of CrossOver Games 8.1 for...
In this article: CodeWeavers, CrossOver, Minnesota, Hanukah, Mac OS X, and UK
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Business Wire Entertainment News | 2 days ago
Autodesk Collaborates With DreamWorks and Imageworks on Mudbox for Linux
...with teams at Imageworks and DreamWorks to port the digital sculpting and texture painting software to the Linux platform. Mudbox for Linux is available through Autodesk Consulting services. "Mudbox was first developed as an integral part of...
In this article: Autodesk, Mudbox, DreamWorks, Trademark, DreamWorks Animation, Academy Award, AutoCAD, All rights reserved, and Competitive advantage
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PC World: Latest Technology News | 2 days ago
New Linux Isn't That Different from Old Linux
...hardware support. Ten years ago, you had to make darn sure that your PC hardware could support any given Linux distribution. Today, modern Linux distributions support the vast majority of both internal PC components and peripherals. I...
In this article: Ubuntu, KDE, Adobe Flash, Photoshop, Netscape, Firefox, Lynx, Internet Explorer, and System76
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Computer World | 3 days ago
Opinion: The future of Linux is Google
...predictions about Google's still-unseen Chrome OS, conditions look good for it PC World - I used to think Ubuntu was destined to lead Linux into the mainstream, but now it's looking much more like Google -- not Canonical -- will be the...
In this article: Google, Microsoft, Android, Chrome OS, BlackBerry, Ubuntu, ARM, Windows Mobile, and Applications
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Yahoo! News | 4 days ago
The Future of Linux is Google (PC World)
...to think that Chrome OS could spell an end to other, less widely supported distributions of Linux, but I think such concerns are ill founded. The Linux world is based on nothing so much as a deep desire for diversity and choice in...
In this article: Google, Chrome OS, Microsoft, Android, Android, Ubuntu, GPL, Gmail, and Acer
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PC World: Latest Technology News | 4 days ago
The Future of Linux is Google
I used to think Ubuntu was destined to lead Linux into the mainstream, but now it's looking much more like Google--not Canonical--will be the first Linux vendor to truly challenge Microsoft. Google's migration into the operating system...
In this article: Google, Microsoft, Android, Chrome OS, Ubuntu, Windows Explorer, Iphone, and BlackBerry
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The Register | 4 days ago
Top 500 supers - rise of the Linux quad-cores
...quad-core - and in some notable cases, six-core - processors inside supercomputing systems. And most of the machines on the list now run Linux with x64 processors. The key differences between machines are what network interconnects and...
In this article: AMD, Intel, IBM, Recession, Hans Meuer, University of Tennessee, University of Mannheim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Computer World | November 12, 2009
Opinion: Linux desktop turns 10; world yawns
...NetWinder small office/home office server appliance and its WordPerfect word processor on Linux. Corel Linux was built on top of the Debian 2.2.12 Linux kernel and used the KDE 1.1.2 desktop environment. Besides WordPerfect and the usual...
In this article: Corel Corp, WordPerfect, Microsoft, Quattro Pro, Emacs, Corel Linux, CorelDRAW, Linux kernel, and Michael Cowpland
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The Register | November 11, 2009
Platform clusters Windows HPC with Linux
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PC World: Latest Technology News | November 07, 2009
Linux Will Kill Windows, Says Former Microsoftie
...and article comments Get free excerpts and exclusive discounts on Super Guides It's not only long-time Linux true believers who say that Linux will eventually wipe out Windows. An former Microsoft employee of 11 years says that...
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Linux (commonly pronounced: /ˈlɪnʌks/, in English, also pronounced: /ˈlɪnʊks/, Torvalds has made available an audio sample with his pronunciation in English (IPA: //ˈlɪnʊks//: ) and in Swedish (IPA: //ˈlɪːnɤks//: ) is a generic term referring to Unix-like computer operating systems based on the Linux kernel. Their development is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration; typically all the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed, both commercially and non-commercially, by anyone under the terms of the GNU GPL.
Linux is predominantly known for its use in servers, although can be installed on a wide variety of computer hardware, ranging from embedded devices, mobile phones and even some watches to supercomputers. Linux distributions, installed on both desktop and laptop computers, have become increasingly commonplace in recent years, partly owing to the popular Ubuntu distribution and the emergence of netbooks.
The name "Linux" comes from the Linux kernel, originally written in 1991 by Linus Torvalds. The rest of the system usually comprises components such as the Apache HTTP Server, the X Window System, the GNOME and KDE desktop environments, and utilities and libraries from the GNU Project (announced in 1983 by Richard Stallman). Commonly-used applications with desktop Linux systems include the Mozilla Firefox web-browser and the OpenOffice.org office application suite. The GNU contribution is the basis for the Free Software Foundation's preferred name GNU/Linux.
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