linux platform

Chip giant's Linux-based operating system is set to fade away after merging with another Linux platform under another name.

Read this blog post by Brooke Crothers on Nanotech - The Circuits Blog.

The VAR Guy: "The upshot for channel partners: It's time to push beyond the basic Linux wars and decide which Linux platform offers the best cloud and virtualization story.

Here's the update."

MeeGo is the new mobile Linux platform developed by Nokia and Intel.

As the community is forming up, we thought that it would be good to enable people to use their maemo.org identities also on the MeeGo web services (as well as on any other OpenID enabled website).

For this, let me introduce Maemo's OpenID provider.

TechRepublic: "So I might be a bit of a rabble-rouser, but since I brought up the example of Linux/open source discrimination in my last post, “You can't get there from here: Linux platform hurdles” and asked for your feedback, I keep seeing all sorts of complaints of the similarly disgruntled from all over the Internets/series of tubes."

The VAR Guy: "Linux Platform Products revenue jumped 22 percent to $38 million for the quarter. Impressive.

And The VAR Guy thinks Novell is finally on the right track with SUSE Linux ISVs"

Tuxarena: "Firefox is currently the most popular browser on the Linux platform and the top choice on Windows after Internet Explorer (although there are statistics showing it beats IE in terms of popularity in some countries)."

InformationWeek: "Garmin has been struggling for over a year and a half to release the Nuvifone G60, and according to Android Community.com, once the Nuvifone ships, all future phones will be based on Windows Mobile or Google's Linux platform, Android."

Offshore magazine: "On June 12, Foster Findlay Associates (ffA) plans to release SEA 3D Pro 2009.1, the latest version of its desktop 3D seismic analysis and volume interpretation software, on the Linux platform."

Practical Technology: "The company saw its biggest growth in its Open Platform Solutions area, which, for all intents and purposes, is Novell's Linux business.

Open Platform showed $39 million revenue, and $37 million of that was from its Linux Platform Products."

This post was written by News Contributor, Pam Derringer.