Copyright (c) 2012 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1287 technology Linux/Open Source en-us Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:58:13 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/digitaltrends/20120207/tc_digitaltrends/facebookmayopensourcesomeofitsbackendcodethisyear digitaltrends/20120207/facebookmayopensourcesomeofitsbackendcodethisyear Digital Trends technology Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:58:13 GMT Digital Trends - CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently described Facebook as embracing “the hacker way,” which is to say that the company has a sort of freedom and interest in constantly innovating, breaking, and creating without boundaries that limit other enterprise businesses. How much that applies to Facebook in practice has long been up for debate, but the company may be edging closer in that direction in the near future. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrends/20120131/tc_digitaltrends/firefox10hitsthestreets digitaltrends/20120131/firefox10hitsthestreets Digital Trends technology Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:35:23 GMT Digital Trends - Mozilla has set loose Firefox 10, the latest version of its open-source Web browser for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. New features in the release are largely limited to technologies aimed at Web developers, but there’s one important new feature that ought to appeal to anyone who has augmented their browser’s functionality: by default, most add-ons will be compatible with new versions of Firefox by default, and users will have an easier time managing and (if necessary) updating their add-ons to new versions of the browser. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120130/ap_on_bi_ge/us_open_source_textbooks_utah ap/20120130/us_open_source_textbooks_utah AP business Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:07:08 GMT AP - Utah classrooms may soon be making the switch to open-source online textbooks that can be cheaper and easier to update. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrends/20120127/tc_digitaltrends/ubuntumovesbeyondthedesktopwithnewtvinterfacemenukillingnavigationsystem digitaltrends/20120127/ubuntumovesbeyondthedesktopwithnewtvinterfacemenukillingnavigationsystem Digital Trends technology Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:24:39 GMT Digital Trends - Late last year, Ubuntu announced it would bring the open source operating system to mobile devices. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth said Ubuntu will soon be found on “tablets, phones, TVs and smart screens from the car to the office kitchen, and it will connect those devices cleanly and seamlessly to the desktop, the server and the cloud.” http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_androidapps_com_articles10876_android_tablets_approach_tipping_point_mimic_smartphone_rise/44314419/SIG=13d56tn0b/*http://www.androidapps.com/tech/articles/10876-android-tablets-approach-tipping-point-mimic-smartphone-rise appolicious_rss/20120126/http___www_androidapps_com_articles10876_android_tablets_approach_tipping_point_mimic_smartphone_rise Appolicious technology Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:56:00 GMT Appolicious - Google’s winning smartphone strategy was to make Android open source and invite anyone and everyone to create a device for their mobile platform. It worked, as HTC, Motorola and others jumped on the opportunity to create smartphones to rival the iPhone. However, the market was reset when Apple released the iPad. Yet another game-changer, the iPad set new standards for tablets, and is already prepping for a third generation release. All the while, Google’s been building an Android platform designed for tablets, eventually releasing Android 4. ... http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mashable/20120125/tc_mashable/hps_plan_to_opensource_webos_whats_taking_so_long mashable/20120125/hps_plan_to_opensource_webos_whats_taking_so_long Mashable business Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:31:25 GMT Mashable - Hewlett-Packard just announced it would fulfill its promise to make the code of its dormant mobile operating system, webOS, open-source ... by September. The company, which effectively stopped the webOS platform in its tracks when it killed the HP TouchPad tablet and Palm line of phones last summer, said in a statement that it would gradually release parts of webOS to the open-source community over the next eight months. Starting this month with Enyo 2.0, the webOS developer tool, HP will make individual elements available bit by bit. (The full schedule is below.) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mashable/20120118/tc_mashable/mozilla_challenges_prove_crowdsourcing_still_works_for_fundraising mashable/20120118/mozilla_challenges_prove_crowdsourcing_still_works_for_fundraising Mashable technology Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:32 GMT Mashable - The Mozilla Firefox Challenge has named a winner -- but the real champion is the public, who yet again proved that crowdsourcing and grass roots campaigns are an effective way to raise money for charity. The Challenge, hosted on the Crowdrise fundraising platform, pitted 12 celebrities in a race to see who could raise the most money for a charitable cause. Users could donate directly to the charities or sign on as co-fundraisers through Crowdrise. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120117/tc_nm/us_samsung_tizen nm/20120117/us_samsung_tizen Reuters technology Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:24:01 GMT Reuters - Samsung Electronics Co plans to merge its own 'bada' mobile phone operating software with an open-source Tizen platform as the world's biggest smartphone maker seeks alternatives to Google's Android in its devices. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrends/20120116/tc_digitaltrends/microsoftrequiringsecurebootforarmdeviceshamstringinglinux digitaltrends/20120116/microsoftrequiringsecurebootforarmdeviceshamstringinglinux Digital Trends technology Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:19:20 GMT Digital Trends - As Windows 8 gets closer to reality, more details of Microsoft’s make-it-or-break-it effort to translate its desktop computing success to ARM-driven tablets are emerging. First, Microsoft revealed that ARM-based Windows 8 devices won”t be able to run legacy Windows software—it’ll be the Metro way, or the highway. Now, Microsoft’s Windows 8 hardware certification requirements reveal another restriction: Microsoft plans to require ARM-based Windows 8 devices use UEFI secure booting technology, dubbed Secure Boot. Although the requirement is likely intended to protect consumers from firmware attacks and prevent so-called jailbreaks of ARM-based Windows 8 tablets, it will also make it difficult or impossible for owners to use the hardware with non-Windows operating systems, like Linux. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/linux/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100329/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc1359 ytech_gadg/20100329/ytech_gadg_tc1359 The Gadget Hound technology Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:46:31 GMT The Gadget Hound - Sure, the original launch PlayStation 3 was expensive, but it came loaded with such powerful features as native support for old PS2 titles and the ability to install another operating system — such as Linux — directly onto the console.