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RSS OSDLImproving Verification, Validation, and Test of the Linux Kernel: The Linux Stabilization Project
White Paper This paper highlights one project that involves a disciplined test approach to the kernel: the OSDL Linux Stabilization project. Small projects tend to have virtually no testing performed by anyone other than the author... [04 Apr 2007]
Open source alliance forged over Linux standards
News The Open Source Developer Labs (OSDL) and the Free Standards Group (FSG), two groups trying to standardise and steer Linux, have merged in an effort to increase their influence. But it's possible the foundation could be... [22 Jan 2007]
Motorola pledges 50 per cent Linux
News In an announcement Monday, LiPS and OSDL formally agreed to work together. Greg Besio, vice president of mobile device software, said in an interview at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo: "We've got to the point where... [16 Aug 2006]
IBM looks to open source to boost patent quality
News Partners include the Patent Office and the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), an industry consortium that launched a "patent commons" for open-source communities in November 2005. In another effort, the... [10 Jan 2006]
Siemens to join OSDL
News Siemens has announced it is to join the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL). As well as contributing to furthering the adoption of Linux in the mobile sphere, Siemens will also take part in the OSDL's... [07 Dec 2005]
Lack of 'quality' email app hinders desktop Linux
News The survey was conducted by the OSDL Desktop Linux Working Group in October 2005. Email functionality will be the most significant factor governing the take-up of Linux on the desktop according to a study published this... [02 Dec 2005]
Linux mobile standards in the pipeline
News The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) has been trying to boost Linux for phones and define requirements for various models. OSDL is working on lower-level software but there is some overlap with the... [14 Nov 2005]
Is open source coming to a mobile near you?
News The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), an industry consortium devoted to improving Linux, plans to launch an initiative today to bring the open source operating system to mobile phones. OSDL's Mobile... [17 Oct 2005]
'Linux 40 per cent cheaper than Windows'
News Microsoft recently met with the Open Source Development Lab to discuss the possibility of working together on TCO research - an opportunity the OSDL appears to have declined. Two IBM-sponsored reports published this week... [02 Sep 2005]
Leader: Microsoft and OSDL - a missed opportunity?
Leader Microsoft has received a cool response from the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) over its offer to jointly sponsor research into total cost of ownership of Windows versus Linux. And it's understandable that... [30 Aug 2005]
OSDL shuns Microsoft's Linux collaboration offer
News The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), home of Linus Torvalds, is unlikely to be accepting Microsoft's offer to jointly finance research into the Windows v Linux debate. The offer, made by Microsoft's general manager... [30 Aug 2005]
Microsoft tries to seduce OSDL with joint Linux probe
News Microsoft has approached the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), home of Linus Torvalds, to propose working together on a Windows vs Linux analysis. Microsoft has said it will pay half of the necessary funding for the... [24 Aug 2005]
"Software patents are a way of life"
News OSDL has an "aggressive plan to drive (OSI) to a new direction", Fink said. Open source programmers might not like the idea of software patents, but those critics would be better off adapting to the fact that they're not... [16 Feb 2005]
Patents - weapons of mass [software] destruction?
News Torvalds said at the OSDL Linux Summit in Burlingame, California: "Are software patents useful? Two open source leaders joined Linux founder Linus Torvalds in disparaging software patents on Tuesday, the newest volley in... [02 Feb 2005]
IDC: 'Linux will be $10bn market'
News IDC collected the data, but IDC analyst Al Gillen said that Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a Linux consortium funded by major computing companies, funded IDC to integrate the data into a single study. [16 Dec 2004]
