Stories about: Cherry

Embedded Linux is getting a lot of attention these days. A new kernel.org mailing list, linux-embedded-archived here-has been set up, with discussions and patches already being posted. In addition, Paul Gortmaker and David Woodhouse have volunteered to be the "embedded maintainers" for the kernel to help coordinate the embedded Linux community. They graciously agreed to a joint email interview to shed some light on their new roles.

Sony BMG Music Entertainment will crack open the door to its music vaults on Jan. 15, taking the DRM copy-prevention wrapper off a limited selection of downloadable tracks.

Firefox users have something new to brag about. Security vendor Secunia reports that users of the open-source browser are more likely to have installed the latest security updates than Web surfers running Internet Explorer or Opera.

Vista be damned. Novell, Red Hat and Ubuntu are showing the world that Linux is getting its desktop house in order.

If employees at Backcountry.com want a Windows desktop they better have a good excuse, because the standard issue is Linux.

Revving its Longhorn marketing engine, Microsoft is forming a team of bloggers who will get early access to prereleases of the operating system and will be asked to review the Windows XP successor.

Hackers have compromised databases belonging to LexisNexis and stolen information on at least 32,000 people, according to a statement Wednesday from LexisNexis' parent company, Reed Elsevier.

Countering the latest salvo of Microsoft's Get the Facts campaign against open-source software, Novell has launched a Web site devoted to "unbending the truth" about Linux in the enterprise.

Linux users in German-speaking countries and the U.K. will have an opportunity to buy keyboards specially designed for the open source operating system in late September, when Cherry launches what the company claims is the world's first Linux keyboard.

Looking to boost the reliability and availability of its open-source database, MySQL this week is unveiling clustering capabilities.

The business world has never seen anything like the Linux ecosystem before. Many of us barely have our heads around the competitive landscape of the proprietary software publishing business with its near-zero cost to produce additional copies, complex licensing terms, huge gross margins, often changing pricing strategy, and a development strategy that varies based on market power as much as user needs