Copyright (c) 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1287 technology Linux/Open Source en-us Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1287 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20100208/tc_infoworld/112060 infoworld/20100208/112060 InfoWorld technology Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 GMT InfoWorld - Why choose between Windows 7 and Snow Leopard when you can have both? A Mac with virtualization software is a great platform for running Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, or other Intel-based operating systems, all at the same time. There's also Mac OS X's native Boot Camp, but it only supports Windows and doesn't give you access to Mac OS X without rebooting. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100205/tc_pcworld/microsofttodroplinuxunixversionsofenterprisesearch pcworld/20100205/microsofttodroplinuxunixversionsofenterprisesearch PC World technology Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:40:28 GMT PC World - Microsoft will no longer offer Linux or Unix versions of its enterprise search products after a wave of releases set to ship in the first half of this year, the company announced in an official blog post Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20100205/tc_infoworld/112356 infoworld/20100205/112356 InfoWorld technology Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:12:34 GMT InfoWorld - Moonlight 3.0, which puts Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet plug-in software on Linux and Unix platforms, is now being offered in an alpha release, according to Web pages from the Mono project, which has jurisdiction over Moonlight. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100205/tc_pcworld/maliciousfirefoxaddonsinstalledtrojans pcworld/20100205/maliciousfirefoxaddonsinstalledtrojans PC World technology Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:56:00 GMT PC World - Mozilla last night announced that two experimental Firefox add-ons, Master Filer and the Sothink Web Video Downloader version 4, infected victim PCs with Trojans when either add-on was installed. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100204/tc_pcworld/fivebenefitsofanopensourcesymbian pcworld/20100204/fivebenefitsofanopensourcesymbian PC World technology Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:05:00 GMT PC World - The Symbian mobile operating system is getting a second life as the Symbian Foundation makes the smartphone platform open source. The lifeline will revitalize the platform, and has benefits for Nokia, smartphone developers, Symbian handsets, and smartphone users. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20100204/bs_nf/71467 nf/20100204/71467 NewsFactor business Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:03:12 GMT NewsFactor - It's official -- and ahead of schedule. The Symbian mobile operating system is now completely open source. The Symbian Foundation on Thursday released Symbian 3, the latest version of the platform. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20100204/tc_infoworld/112062 infoworld/20100204/112062 InfoWorld technology Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:10:42 GMT InfoWorld - The Symbian Foundation will move forward on Thursday with offering up the full Symbian smartphone platform to open source. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100203/tc_pcworld/symbiangoesopensourcefourmonthsearly pcworld/20100203/symbiangoesopensourcefourmonthsearly PC World technology Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:30:20 GMT PC World - Symbian has completed the process of open sourcing its entire code base, in advance of its June deadline. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20100203/tc_infoworld/111989 infoworld/20100203/111989 InfoWorld technology Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:44:36 GMT InfoWorld - In the wake of its merger with Sun Microsystems, Oracle is discontinuing access to Project Kenai, which was developed by Sun as an open source project-hosting site. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20100203/tc_zd/248112 zd/20100203/248112 PC Magazine technology Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:15:52 GMT PC Magazine - On Wednesday, the foundation overseeing the world's most popular smartphone OS, Symbian, announced that it had made the operating system entirely open source. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20100201/bs_nf/71404 nf/20100201/71404 NewsFactor business Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:29:51 GMT NewsFactor - Google may not be winning over the multitudes with its Nexus One "superphone," but the search giant is gaining ground in the 21st century browser wars. Google's Chrome browser grabbed market share in January from its key rivals, Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20100201/bs_nf/71403 nf/20100201/71403 NewsFactor business Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:32:56 GMT NewsFactor - Mozilla has released a mobile version of its Firefox browser for users of Nokia's N900 smartphone, which runs the handset maker's high-end Maemo operating system. Built on the same engine as Firefox 3.6 for PCs, the new mobile browser is currently available for download in more than 30 languages, with support for more smartphone platforms and languages on the way, the developers said. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100129/tc_pcworld/oraclesunmergercouldbenefitsmallbusiness pcworld/20100129/oraclesunmergercouldbenefitsmallbusiness PC World technology Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:21:00 GMT PC World - Small business has reason the cheer Oracle's acquisition of Sun, now that it appears OpenOffice.org and MySQL look to do well--perhaps better--under new ownership. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20100129/tc_zd/247955 zd/20100129/247955 PC Magazine technology Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:12:02 GMT PC Magazine - Although eclipsed by Apple's iPad announcement, Oracle announced yesterday its intentions with Sun products, now that the acquisition of Sun Microsystems is complete. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20100127/tc_zd/247842 zd/20100127/247842 PC Magazine technology Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:07 GMT PC Magazine - Jim Lynch responds to your comments and sounds off about Kindle app development, Linux job hunting, IE insecurity, and more http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100125/tc_pcworld/talendrevealsopensourcemdm pcworld/20100125/talendrevealsopensourcemdm PC World technology Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:50:17 GMT PC World - An open-source MDM (master data management) suite from Talend is now available, giving companies a lower-priced option to proprietary products from the likes of Tibco, Kalido and IBM, the company announced Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100125/ap_on_hi_te/eu_eu_digital_future ap/20100125/eu_eu_digital_future AP technology Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:02:02 GMT AP - The leader of the Mozilla Project, whose Firefox Web browser now has 350 million users, said Sunday that she is concerned that legal restrictions could limit Internet expansion. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20100125/tc_infoworld/109551 infoworld/20100125/109551 InfoWorld technology Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:00:00 GMT InfoWorld - It's the thought experiment we all like to engage in. What would life be like without Microsoft Windows? To listen to the free open source software crowd, the demise of Windows -- and by extension, Microsoft's hegemony over the PC universe -- would signal a kind of rebirth for information technology. Software would finally be free of the corporate shackles that have stifled innovation and dragged down the best and brightest among us. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20100121/tc_infoworld/109982 infoworld/20100121/109982 InfoWorld technology Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:54:57 GMT InfoWorld - Firefox 3.6, the latest version of Mozilla's popular browser, was released Thursday, featuring a 20 percent speed improvement over version 3.5, Mozilla said. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100121/tc_pcworld/firefox36bringsperformanceimprovementsafewnewfeatures pcworld/20100121/firefox36bringsperformanceimprovementsafewnewfeatures PC World technology Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:50:00 GMT PC World - Earlier today, Mozilla released Firefox 3.6, the latest version of its popular browser. While it's not as big of an update as the more ambitious Firefox 3.5, it includes a number of under-the-hood improvements, and a handful of changes that you might discover as you use it. Here are some of the most notable improvements.