Linux

U.K. government could drop Microsoft for Linux

Out of tens of thousands of suggestions from public-sector employees, two ideas the government chose to highlight as representative suggest just that.

Unix How To: Useful Shortcuts for Unix Geeks

Bidgoli’s new MIS 2010 textbook a gold mine

Microsoft Kills Kin – Are They Finally Getting Their Mobile Act Together?

I wouldn't bet on it - but the rolling heads continue

Red Hat gets closer to releasing Enterprise Linux version 6

KVM is to Linux what Hyper-V is to Windows (and Xen is like VMware).

Cisco Takes On Apple With A Tablet Of Their Own

An unlikely source comes to market with their own take on the tablet/slate device. With an interesting focus and the muscle to market, will Cisco's open sourced based tablets rival the iPad?

MeeGo mobile effort offers baseline code

Early version of MeeGo for phones released to developers

A final release of the open source phone software, which combines Intel and Nokia projects, will appear in October

The iPhone 4 Dropped-Call Problem: Time for the End of Lean – and Mean

Quality problems remain way too common in high-tech products - and even the mighty Apple can't solve these in many cases. "Microsoft Disease" - putting profits over quality - is running rampant. Whatever happened to caring about the customer?

Intel’s Meego OS shown on multitouch tablet

An early demo shows multitouch, multitasking and enhanced multimedia capabilities