IBM's new Linux innovation centre in Astana, Kazakhstan aims to promote the development and adoption of open standards and open source software by business and government organisations
"Like many emerging markets, Kazakhstan faces the ambitious task of growing and enhancing its IT infrastructure very fast to match the demands of a new economy," said Inna Kuznetsova, vice president of systems software, marketing and sales enablement.
The Linux Foundation's 600-strong LinuxCon conference in Portland, Oregon, is just getting over and some of the talk emanating from that direction has been interesting, to put it mildly. Linus Torvalds' comment about kernel bloat falls into that category - but much more interesting have been the comments made by Joe Brockmeier, the community manager of Novell's OpenSUSE project.
ARM, maker of microprocessors and microcontrollers used in mobile and embedded electronics, has joined the Linux Foundation. Amanda McPherson, vice president, marketing and developer programs, at The Linux Foundation said in the announcement "By joining the Linux Foundation, ARM is demonstrating its commitment to open standards and Linux."
After a kick in the pants from the leader of the Linux driver project, Microsoft has resumed work on its historic driver code submission to the Linux kernel and avoided having the code pulled from the open source operating system.
VIA Technologies, maker of chip-sets, graphics chips and other components, has joined the Linux Foundation. Richard Brown, VP of marketing at VIA Technologies Inc, said in the announcement "VIA shares the Linux Foundation’s goal of fostering the growth of the Linux ecosystem".
Since last year, VIA has been providing the code to it's latest Linux graphics drivers as open source. By joining the Linux Foundation, VIA's involvement with the Linux kernel developers should be improved; the Foundation employs several prominent kernel hackers, most notably Linux creator, Linus Torvalds
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a group of open-source backers is poised to purchase 22 graphics patents formerly the property of Microsoft.
LINUX HACKERS working on the next version of the Linux kernel claim that some new improvements will speed up the OS on the desktop.
While many Linux geeks were looking forward to USB 3.0 support and new Firewire drivers, kernel developers have also been working on improvements to desktop interactivity, particularly when the OS is under memory pressure.
Day trading is so passe. Today's sharp traders make their cash by trading milliseconds ahead of the other guy. To do that you need really fast stock exchanges, which is where Linux comes in.
After many months of development and careful testing, Slackware 13.0 has been released. Probably the biggest change is the addition of an official 64-bit port. While the 32-bit (x86) version continues to be developed, this release brings to you a complete port to 64-bit (x86_64).
Google's Chromium project announced it is working on its first 64-bit version of its Chrome web browser, which will will arrive first on Linux. Meanwhile, Linux is increasingly driving development of 64-bit software -- simply because Linux power users are demanding it, says an industry blog.
