Munich fires up Linux at last
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Local government launches the first phase of its open-source migration after a year's delay.
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Dell has started offering Ubuntu Linux on its high-end XPS M1330 laptop
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Blog: For the Linux consortium's top tech spot, it's out with Sun Microsystems' Ian Murdock and in with Novell's Markus Rex.
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A new open-source virtual-machine project has quickly won Linux allies, but its arrival brings complications.
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Ubuntu and Red Hat are the most used Linux distributions among the 35,000 members of content-management vendor Alfresco&#39;s community, the company found in its second survey of trends in enterprise open-source software usage.The surveys help inform Alfresco&#39;s technology strategy, according to Ian Howells, Alfresco&#39;s chief marketing officer. &quot;It&#39;s important for us to know which platforms to test against first,&quot; he said, adding, &quot;It&#39;s in users&#39; interest to give us good data.&quot;Among Linux operating systems, usage of Ubuntu and Red Hat stood at 35 percent and 23 percent, respectively, according to the survey. Suse, OpenSuse, and Suse Enterprise collectively garnered 13 percent; Debian, 15 percent; and &quot;other&quot; distributions usage of 14 percent.Users also reported using a variety of proprietary enterprise software.Among Windows users, Vista adoption was just 2 percent, compared to 63 percent for Windows XP and 28 percent for Windows Server 2003.Microsoft&#39;s Office suite remained strong, however, with 66 percent usage. Twenty-four percent of the respondents reported they used OpenOffice. However, German and French users were twice as likely to use the latter compared to those in the U.S. or U.K., Alfresco said.Tomcat held a dominant position in the application server category, logging 72 percent. JBoss&#39; entry stood at 18 percent. Entries from Sun, BEA, and IBM rounded out the field.In the virtualization category, VMware perhaps predictably ranked highest, at 61 percent. Microsoft&#39;s Virtual Server took 16 percent, followed by Xen, Parallels, Virtual Iron and &quot;other&quot; offerings, according to the study.MySQL took home the database prize, with a 60 percent tally, followed by Oracle with 14 percent and Microsoft SQL Server with 13 percent.&quot;It kind of validates that people want to have a mixed stack,&quot; Howells said of the overall results.Alfresco collected data between July and December of last year, with survey participants coming from 260 countries, according to the company. Fifty percent were from Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, while 24 percent were in the U.S., and 26 percent from other nations, Alfresco said.
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Look for more consumer electronics products and services from the PC behemoth. Also: SuSE Linux for Dell servers.
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Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Latin America and Asia/Pacific -- will ship with Linux operating systems, but 75 percent
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Portland, Oregon, is ground zero for all things open source this week, as Ubuntu Live and O'Reilly OSCON descend on the Oregon Convention Center. We'll have live updates from both shows -- Linux on the desktop, open-source development, hardware support -- it's all here.
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The Ubuntu open-source community chalked up another milestone today with the release of version 7.10 of its flagship Linux operating system.
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Turbolinux, Inc., a global leader of Linux-based solutions, announced  last week in Japan that they will release the new product "wizpy,"  which is a Linux-embedded, portable USB bootable device with digital  audio capability.
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In this week's entry we'll look at two more "live" CDs of Linux systems optimized for multimedia creation and performance. I've been having a great time with these systems, and I hope that my mini-profiles inspire you to try them all. They're a great way to introduce someone to Linux, they show off the system optimized for multimedia performance and they provide a wealth of high-quality sound and music software to exploit that system. They all include the standard cornucopia of applications for the mundane tasks, word processing, text editing, graphics, networking, and so on. All that, for the cost of a download and a disc.
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A major KDE overhaul gives of one of the two prevailing Linux user interfaces a new look and new applications. Some features will be familiar Windows and Mac OS X users.
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sameerdesai writes &quot;Seattletimes is carying this story on Intel helping major countries like China and India to help build Linux machines as an alternative to Microsoft Windows.
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Linux looms large in software shifts in India. Plus: Version 3 of the GPL gets a long-awaited release.
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Sun's BrandZ technology, which lets Linux applications run on a virtual slice of a Solaris x86 installation, is finally ready for prime time.
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Now that Steve Ballmer and company have given you all the facts you need to compare Windows and Linux, allow me to add just one little tidbit.
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A year after announcing it would migrate its Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Windows-run computers to Linux, the German city of Munich is expected to make the migration official. The city's council has scheduled a vote, which is anticipated to kick off the next phase of the Linux move.