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Almost every computer in North Korea runs on a North Korea-made operating system called “Red Star.” A former Google employee purchased a copy of North Korea’s operating system before returning to America, which lets us see what it’s like to use a computer in the country. Visit Business Insider’s homepage […]

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Over the years, we’ve seen companies show off a number of awesome phones that had a lot of potential, but were doomed by their makers’ poor decisions. A bunch of them weren’t released in the U.S. — the largest global market for smartphones — or weren’t released at all. From […]

Alex Polvi made a name for himself in the tech industry back in 2010 at the ripe old age of 25. That’s when Rackspace bought his first startup, Cloudkick, for an estimated $US30 million. Now he’s back with his new company, CoreOS, and it’s worth watching for several reasons. First, […]

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[credit provider=”Ubuntu”] 2013 seems like an odd time to talk about a brand new smartphone operating system, but that’s just what we got yesterday from Ubuntu, a popular indie operating system for PCs that is making its way to the smartphone.Like Android, Ubuntu is based on Linux and will be […]

Samsung is expected to release a smartphone on a new operating system called Tizen in 2013.

[credit provider=”Flickr / Rain Rabbit” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/6123975831/in/photostream/”] Raspberry Pi is launching its own app store.It will function almost identically as Google Play or Apple’s App Store, being a go-to place for people to share their homebrew games and utilities for others to download.

[credit provider=”PengPod” url=”http://www.pengpod.com/about-us”] Android/Linux lovers are whooping it up now that a startup called PengPod reached its crowdfunding goal.PengPod promised to ship affordable 7- and 10-inch tablets if it could raise $49,000 by today.

[credit provider=”flickr/tracie7779″ url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/twobears2/5129655648/”] Hewlett-Packard has become a Platinum member of the Linux Foundation, the organisation responsible for Linux and other open-source software projects.A Platinum membership costs $500,000 a year and brings with it a seat on the board of directors and a say in which kinds of projects the group […]

[credit provider=”Flickr / Rain Rabbit” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/6123975831/in/photostream/”] The Raspberry Pi is a fully-functional computer that only costs $35. You can buy it with two $20 bills and still get change back!

[credit provider=”Martin Streicher via Wikimedia” url=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Linus_Torvalds.jpeg”] The Linux Foundation today announced that it has a new big-name member: Twitter.Twitter is a big user of Linux. So the real-time information network has stepped up to become an official, paying sponsor of the organisation that oversees Linux.

Besides Microsoft’s own Surface tablets, we don’t know much about other Windows RT tablets, which will run on long-battery life ARM processors like the iPad.

[credit provider=”Twitter” url=”https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net/profile_images/2267320808/9m1dxis8i287vq9rcgvx.jpeg”] Oracle has made an interesting offer to companies using a free version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Switch to our free Oracle Linux instead.It’s even being kind of funny about it — using some self depreciating language that plays on Oracle’s reputation for selling very expensive software. […]

Last week, Linux creator Linus Torvalds was in Finland giving a talk when a woman in the crowd asked why chip maker Nvidia refused to support Linux on a brand new machine she had bought.

[credit provider=”Screenshot”] Samsung is ramping up its plans to best Apple’s iOS.The South Korean company will soon announce that it joined the Linux Foundation at the highest level, Platinum. This gives Samsung a seat on the Linux Foundation’s board.

[credit provider=”Martin Streicher via Wikimedia” url=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Linus_Torvalds.jpeg”] In an interview with Linux creator Linus Torvalds, TechCrunch’s Scott Merrill asks about Torvalds’s taste in computer hardware.Here’s what Torvalds had to say:

[credit provider=”Flickr/Trancept” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/trancept/4142043162/sizes/z/in/faves-osde-info/”] Sure Red Hat just crested the $1 billion-revenue mark with almost $150 million in profit while Canonical, maker of Ubuntu Linux, still isn’t profitable after seven years in business.Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth says … so what?

A lot of folks in Silicon Valley think that Windows is irrelevant.

[credit provider=”Geek.com” url=”http://www.geek.com/articles/games/game-developer-david-braben-creates-a-usb-stick-pc-for-25-2011055/”] The Linux-powered Raspberry Pi computer is officially available for purchase, just barely making its February launch window.The device is pictured right and is approximately the same size as a credit card.

[credit provider=”Flickr/vernhart” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/vernhart/1466093575/sizes/z/in/photostream/”] Tattoos have been around almost as long as skin.There are as many reasons to get a tattoo as there are people. For instance, in the 5th century BC, they were used to transmit secret messages across enemy lines. A few thousand years later, sailors would tattoo a […]

[credit provider=”Tim O’Brien” url=”http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1599655190/ProfilePic.jpg”] How do you convince a generation of people who have grown up thinking you are evil to change their minds and love you instead?That’s the job of Microsoft’s Tim O’Brien, general manager of Platform Strategy. He’s out to convince a new generation of application programmers to […]

It’s Friday. That’s the perfect day to have uncovered this weird gem: This week, Rebecca Black got her own version of Linux, RebeccaBlackOS.

[credit provider=”Geek.com” url=”http://www.geek.com/articles/games/game-developer-david-braben-creates-a-usb-stick-pc-for-25-2011055/”] The first set of Raspberry Pi computers will be available for $35 on February 20, reports Ars Technica.The computer (pictured right) is a barebones device in every sense — you’ll have to supply your own monitor and Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, but after that you’ve got a […]

[credit provider=”Wikimedia Commons”] WebOS is partly based on Linux (just as Android is).Today, the keeper of Linux, the Linux Foundation, said that WebOS will once again become part of Linux.

Enterprises are set to spend $10 billion on Apple hardware in 2012. This amounts to a kick in the shin for Microsoft: painful, but hardly devastating.

[credit provider=”Oracle_ImagesviaFlickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/oracle_images/5015810337/”] In 2012, a shocking number of enterprises will slink away from Oracle into the arms of competitors Red Hat and SUSE, new market research finds. This comes even though Oracle has its own flavour of Linux that is basically a copy of Red Hat’s.Worse, this is a […]

[credit provider=”AP”] 2012 may be the year Microsoft transforms itself into a company with a future beyond the Windows desktop.Later this year, Microsoft will add technology to its cloud service, Azure, that will let users run Linux applications on Azure, reports ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley. This underscores just how seriously […]

[credit provider=”Apple”] Chip designer ARM has long dominated the market for smartphones and tablets, leaving Intel scrambling to catch up.Now, it’s getting chance to break into one of Intel’s strongholds — server hardware.

[credit provider=”OIN”] Steve Jobs considered Android “grand theft” of the iPhone, and vowed to fight it to his dying breath.Keith Bergelt has a totally different point of view.

[credit provider=”fw42 via Flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/fw42/5823985066/sizes/m/in/photostream/”] Some Nokia employees are demoralized about the company’s decision earlier this year to abandon Symbian and MeeGo and place a big bet on Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform instead.As a result, the company’s software development centre in Tamere, Finland, clears out every day at 4 p.m., […]

Red Hat has acquired Gluster, a company that uses software to tackle storage problems in a new way.We had the opportunity to talk to Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat, about the acquisition, how Gluster’s product works, and what it means to be steering a company into the $1 billion […]

[credit provider=”The Linux Foundation”] LinuxCon 2011 is in full swing in Vancouver, Canada right now.Last night organisers held a special gala to honour 20 years of open source success.

Can you believe Linux has been going strong for 20 years now?

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Microsoft no longer thinks Linux poses a threat to its desktop Windows business.

[credit provider=”We Have No Vision” url=”http://www.wehavenovision.com/?p=11″] A recent survey from Evans Data indicates that more North American developers are using Macs than are using Linux machines.Windows is sitting tight in first place, being the preferred environment for 80% of developers. Mac OS jumped from third to second, now controlling 7.9%, […]

[credit provider=”arkworld/Flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/arkworld/2477643864/sizes/m/in/photostream/”] You spend too much money on video games.Indie developers build their games out of a driving sense of passion. They don’t care if you like them or not — their games are free or cheap.

[credit provider=”Dylan Love”] We wrote last week that Linux makes all kinds of things work, from traffic lights to nuclear submarines.That’s not even scratching the surface.

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[credit provider=”Dylan Love”] Linux is everywhere.Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, told us, “You use Linux every day but you don’t know it. It’s such a fundamental part of our lives.

[credit provider=”Red Hat” url=”http://www.redhat.com/about/companyprofile/management/whitehurst.html”] Today’s advice comes from Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst’s interview with ZDNet Asia:”I’m one that looks to seek consensus in decision-making. I’ve always told [employees] to call me an idiot if they think I’m doing something wrong, and many have!

A Texas jury has fined Google $5 million over Linux patents, the BBC reports.

[credit provider=”Wolfiewolf via Flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/herry/3341948095/#/photos/herry/3341948095/lightbox/”] Opera released a new new update to its web browser, version 11.10, today with a slew of speedy new features.We got a sneak peek at the latest version last week, and there are some nifty features in it that we love.

[credit provider=”Oregon Live” url=”http://blog.oregonlive.com/”] Whether you use it every day or you’ve never even heard of it, Linux is undeniably important to computing history. It’s been around in one form or another since the early 90s and continues to be a relevant player in the world of computing.This year it […]

The people running the Linux Foundation used to worry about Microsoft, but now they liken it to “kicking a puppy.”

[credit provider=”Martin Streicher via Wikimedia” url=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Linus_Torvalds.jpeg”] Linus Torvalds, the creator of the open source operating system Linux, was invited to a pre-Oscar party on Saturday night, and blogs about his experience here.He and his wife Tove were got a kick out of asking famous stars who they were. Linus apparently […]

Finding the right software for your desktop can be an expensive experience.

A couple weeks ago, Gmail creator Paul Buchheit came out publicly against Google’s Chrome OS, predicting that it would be merged with the far more popular Android OS within a year.

Software industry veteran Novell has found a buyer: privately held Attachmate is picking up the company for $2.2 billion. But more interestingly, a holding company led by Microsoft is paying Novell a separate $450 million cash payment for the rights to more than 800 patents.