Henry Kingman

The Motorola U9, part of the mobile phone maker’s LiMo (Linux Mobile) Phone line, with its “mesmerizing” external OLED display, strong radio, and small, finger-friendly form factor could make the U9 a top seller. There are some glitches with Motorola U9’s USB connectivity. But the phone performs well testing Bluetooth, music playback and photography. Especially […]

Microsoft will buy $100 million worth of Linux support certificates from Novell to redistribute to Microsoft Windows Server customers for Novell for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). Novell has promised “tools, support, training and resources” for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server users seeking “optimal interoperability” with Microsoft Windows Server. The deal is a continuation of a […]

Motorola has released a “public preview” of the first-ever native development tools for unreleased models of its Linux-based mobile phones. MotoDev Studio for Linux 0.3 is a freely downloadable, Eclipse-based tool suite aimed at helping third-party and community Linux developers create, test and certify apps for the newest Motorola phone models. MotoDev Studio for Linux […]

Xandros officials say they will release a new version of Freespire that will be based on Debian’s forthcoming Lenny release, expected this fall. The decision to base Freespire on the Debian Linux distribution comes only a month after Xandros acquired Linspire, the developer of Freespire. Freespire is a free version of Linspire and was previously […]

The Lightweight X11 Desktops Environment project has developed a fast-booting and fast-running implementation of GNOME aimed at “netbooks” and older hardware. The LXDE project has already stacked up a number of distribution partners for this new implementation of GNOME. LXDE released its lightweight Linux desktop for general use. Built into the latest gOS 3 Gadgets […]

Vyatta has bundled its dual-licensed Linux and open-source software-based router and firewall software into a branded hardware “appliance” version for the enterprise market. The Vyatta 2501, the first in a “Series 2500” line of “Open Networking Appliances,” targets data centers requiring up to 10G bps of throughput. Strategically, Vyatta intends to leverage commodity x86-based hardware […]

Open-source software developers have only a few more days to package any applications that they want to be included in the next release of Debian and Ubuntu. The Debian project’s maintainer, Luk Claes, said July 21 that he will freeze “testing” the “Lenny” tree “next week” as he prepares for the stable release of Debian […]

The Mobile Linux Conference set its speakers list for its event, during the larger LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, Aug. 5 to 7, at the Moscone Center, San Francisco. Linux Pundit’s Bill Weinberg, Motorola’s Christy Wyatt, Intel’s Ram Peddibholta, and a panel with executives from Access, Funambol, Sprint, and Sun will present. Mobile Linux Conference includes […]

The new version of Intel’s Linux-compatible C++ open-source library is designed to help developers improve the performance of C++ applications on multicore processors. Version 2.1 of Intel TBB (Threading Building Blocks) offers performance enhancements, a new portable affinity mechanism and an improved task scheduler that is designed to ease development of GUIs, network I/0 and […]

Linux 2.6.26 was released, announced July 13, by Linux originator Linus Torvalds. The new stable kernel has read-only bind mounts, “big iron” KVM ports, USB Webcam support, 802.11s mesh Wi-Fi, built-in support for remote kernel debugging, and a host of embedded architecture improvements, among other enhancements. It contains 330MB of source code, via a 48.3MB […]