Hard on the heels of Canonical's decision last month to halve the support life for non-LTS releases of Ubuntu Linux, the company late last week announced that three versions of its popular Linux distribution will reach end of life in May. ...
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A Spanish association of Linux users today accused Microsoft of anti-competitive practices, charging that Windows 8's Secure Boot blocks users from installing rival operating systems on new PCs. Hispalinux, which represents some 8,000 ...
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China is standardising on Ubuntu for the country's open source operating system. Government agency, the China Software and Integrated Chip Promotions Centre (CSIP) has selected Canonical’s Ubuntu for a reference architecture to be ...
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Apple's iOS has had its "revolutionary" moment, and now faces only "evolution" as carrying legacy and expectations decreases the opportunity to innovate. So says Richard Kinder (pictured), technology VP of mobile software management firm ...
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Developer tools provider Atlassian has released a free client that will allow programmers to access Git distributed revision control systems (DVCS) from Windows computers. "There is a big emergence of Git, but it is still a new technology ...
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Expanding its stack of enterprise ready open source middleware, Red Hat has integrated key software from its acquisition of FuseSource last September. Red Hat has folded both FuseSource's Fuse enterprise service bus (ESB) and FuseSource's ...
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The Ubuntu Touch operating system, which is scheduled for October release on a range of smartphones and tablets, will struggle to find a niche in a crowded mobile marketplace. So says Larry Augustin, CEO of open-source CRM vendor ...
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston has warned against buying into cloud services offered by mobile device manufacturers and network operators, claiming that consumers and businesses can easily become locked in. Speaking at Mobile World Congress in ...
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Canonical, the open source software company behind the popular Ubuntu distribution of Linux, has unveiled the next stage in its plan for a unified operating system. The Ubuntu tablet forms one-quarter of Canonical's strategy to produce a ...
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Canonical has introduced the Ubuntu tablet interface, which will compete with Android, iOS and Windows with its own take on multitasking and advanced security features. The launch is the next step in Canonical's quest to unify phones, ...
Freeing the way for independent Linux distributions to be installed on Windows 8 computers, the Linux Foundation has released software that will allow Linux to work with computers running the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) ...
Smartphones running the open source Ubuntu operating system will start shipping in October, although it isn't clear if they will be available in the U.S., according to a report. Mark Shuttleworth, the CEO of Canonical Ltd., told CIO ...
Smartphones running on a mobile version the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system could arrive as early October this year, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Linux OS vendor Canonical, told the ...
The popular games platform Steam is now available for Linux laptops, according to a blog by Canonical, distributor of the Ubuntu operating system. While Linux has long been one of the main operating system of choice on the server, ...
Chinese phone maker ZTE is planning to launch a smartphone based on Mozilla's Firefox OS at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month. That ZTE is planning to launch a phone based on the upcoming OS doesn't come as surprise; last ...
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