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Klaus Knopper has released version 6.2 of his Debian-based live-CD Linux distro.

When Google made their announcement yesterday [Thursday November 20, 2009], included in their release statement was the fact that their new operating system would be open source.

Now this is one to ponder. This year, the Nobel Peace Prize went to Barack Obama, president of the United States.

For those who have fret about Microsoft fighting against open source, I have news for you: Microsoft's impact on open source may be worse as a friend than as an enemy.

Eric Lai, Computerworld Microsoft is, predictably, not all that impressed by Google's demonstration of its upcoming Chrome OS, but neither were a number of potential rivals in the Linux and instant-on operating system space.

Facebook is not only the world's biggest social network, it's also one of the most popular places to share photos .

LiMo Foundation announced that Korean wireless provider SK Telecom will deploy a Samsung-made "SCH-M510 "phone that complies with the LiMo specification and offers a 3.5-inch AMOLED display.

Getting under the hood of an old computer that may have seen better days isn't everyone's idea of fun.

November 17, 2009 - 12:20 P.M. Linux powers the fastest computers on the planet 136 comments Once upon a time, supercomputers used special vector model processors to achieve their remarkable speeds.

PC maker Acer has switched to Google's Android portable operating system for a new Acer Liquid smartphone and a new netbook version of the Aspire One laptop, the D250.

Google is providing a sneak peak at the Chrome OS today. Maybe the Google Midas touch can succeed where decades of Apple and Linux have failed--denting Microsofta s OS dominance.

For the past two decades, scale-out server cluster architecture has been the dominant trend in supercomputing, as users and vendors move away from big iron high-performance computing -- but at what cost? At the Supercomputing 09 conference this week, HPC users and experts weighed in and said that scale-out supercomputing with commodity hardware has ...

EMBEDDED TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 18, 2009 - Mentor Graphics Corporation , a leading provider of embedded Linux and Android solutions , today announced its delivery of the Android Development System for the Texas Instruments Incorporated OMAP35x processors based on ARM Cortex -A8 technology.

Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, climbed down from the tree last month with new features and updated software.

SC09 -- QLogic Corp. , a leading supplier of high performance network infrastructure solutions, along with other high performance computing industry leaders, was awarded HPCwire's Editor's Choice for "Best HPC Collaboration Between Government and Industry" at SC09.

Nokia appears to be preparing to lose the Symbian operating system on its N-series range of top-end smartphones.

November 18, 2009 - MIPS Technologies, Inc. , a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for home entertainment, communications, networking and portable multimedia markets, today announced availability of the Arriba for Android Porting Kit for its industry-standard MIPS architecture.

SGI has introduced a high-performance computing system that can leverage Intel's eight-core Xeon server processor, scheduled to ship early next year.

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.

Red Hat announced today the official release of Fedora 12, the latest version of the popular open source Linux distribution.