181 news & feature articles results for "asian linux miracle linux"

Linux firms are facing challenges, such as a shaky market for IPOs and increasing pressure to include the operating system in non-PC devices. But Linux's heyday isn't over.

Posted by CNET News.com Staff

SCO Group's warnings that Linux violates its Unix intellectual property right seems to be falling on deaf ears. Also: Open source in the free market.

Posted by CNET News.com Staff

Linux vendor Pacific HiTech sets up shop in China, hoping to capitalize on the predicted boom in computer use.

Posted by Stephen Shankland

Despite a grim market, the operating system continues to be a deal-making catalyst across the high-tech landscape.

Posted by Stephen Shankland

IT managers and developers gather at LinuxWorld in San Francisco to learn more about the open-source operating system that's gaining momentum but also faces legal threats from SCO Group.

Posted by CNET Staff

Linux lovers join computing giants and smaller specialists at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo to discuss the progress and future of the open-source operating system.

Posted by Steven Musil

A half dozen companies are developing cell phones based on the open-source operating system, an executive familiar with the plans says. But the OS faces stiff competition.

Posted by Ben Charny

Norwegian browser maker Opera Software announced a distribution deal with a German Linux provider and released a minor, "point" upgrade to its Linux browser. The two announcements are part of what the Oslo-based, second-rung browser provider called its "Linux Bonanza Week."

Under the distribution deal, SuSE will include Opera in its 8.0 version of the open source Linux operating system. The browser upgrade, to version 6.02, comes after a similar upgrade announced this week for Opera's Windows browser, and corrects the same bugs in its support for Asian characters. The upgrade, along with a deal announced this week with Chinese software reseller Redflag Software Technologies, reflects Opera's strategic shift toward China, which has adopted policies that favor nonproprietary software, specifically Linux.

Posted by Paul Festa

The Norwegian browser maker releases version 6.0 for Linux, which for the first time supports non-Roman characters, letting it target Eastern European and Asian markets.

Posted by Matthew Broersma

Among the news of new URL shorteners and Australian Internet filters comes one of the darkest moments in microblogging: Microsoft has pulled down its new Twitter-like site in China because it turns out it wasn't Twitter-like at all.

Posted by Tom Merritt