desktop linux in news
Nokia: Open source needs a lesson in business
News Trolltech makes Qt, a graphical toolkit that is used in the KDE Linux desktop environment and in much commercial software and is an apparently non-participatory member in the LiMo Foundation. However, neither LiMo nor Maemo use Qt or KDE, opting... [12 Jun 2008]
HP rolls out mass overhaul of PCs
News The company added new touches to just about all the group's products, freshening up its TouchSmart all-in-one desktop, commercial and consumer notebook lines, as well as two machines within its high-end gaming brand, VoodooPC. [11 Jun 2008]
Ubuntu Linux goes mobile
News The Ubuntu release, expected later this year, will be based on the standard Ubuntu Desktop Edition and reworked for Atom-based mobile devices, Canonical said. A version of the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system is coming later this year for... [04 Jun 2008]
LiMo targets the business mobile
News Gillis said: "The principle area of interest [regarding these two companies] is evolving the software stack such that it's really fit for purpose as a mobile platform in the enterprise segment, and will support applications and services for... [15 May 2008]
Dell, HP, Lenovo openly pledge Linux driver support
News Linux Foundation executive director, Jim Zemlin, said in a statement: "This year we saw breakthroughs in driver support for the desktop, IPV6 compliance and virtualisation. Dell, HP and Lenovo have promised to push chipset vendors to make open... [02 May 2008]
Red Hat: Linux consumer desktop not on the cards
News Red Hat has quashed speculation that it was planning a consumer desktop version of Linux to compete with Windows, saying it is focused on enterprise systems and would not be able to make such a product profitably. [21 Apr 2008]
Adobe gives Linux breath of fresh AIR
News The company appears to be increasing its commitment to Linux-based software on the desktop, an area in which its support, until now, has been limited. Adobe has released an alpha version of AIR on Linux and announced it is joining the Linux... [01 Apr 2008]
Dell sees the future - and it's mini!
News He said: "[Desktop] Linux is driven by customers asking for it. We can't deny that Linux has been a success on the server side and continues to be an option that people want to have on the desktop. We're one company that says the desktop will stay... [08 Feb 2008]
Nokia to buy Trolltech and keep it on the Qt
News Qt is used to develop graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and is the main GUI toolkit for the KDE Linux project, one of the two main desktop environments for the open-source operating system - the other being Gnome. [28 Jan 2008]
Vista: Piracy rates half the level of XP, says Microsoft
News Users will also have their desktop background changed to white and a prominent notification placed in the lower right hand corner saying that the machine is not genuine. Poll: In a fight between Vista, OS X, Linux, XP. [04 Dec 2007]
Businesses delay Vista plans until 2009
News Steve Fountain, IT director for Markel International, said: "We'll probably 'plan' during 2008 and implement through 2009 as part of a serious consideration to 'virtualise' our desktop environment. Poll: In a fight between Vista, OS X, Linux, XP. [28 Nov 2007]
Vista - businesses not convinced
News Furthermore, adoption of Linux continues to gather pace, with a particular emphasis on the desktop emerging. Citing hard usage data of OS' used to access popular websites, he said: "It's still less than one per cent, after 15 years of Linux at the... [26 Nov 2007]
Stories of the month - October 2007
News And the Redmond company also apologised for an error with its latest Windows Server update which, in some cases, installed the Windows Desktop Search app without the user's approval. Dell CEO: Linux server sales increasing [31 Oct 2007]
AMD makes friends in the Linux community
News Ben Bar-Haim, vice president of software for AMD's graphics products group, said: "What we see more recently is there is increased interest in using our products on the desktop, not necessarily in the professional workstation market but as a... [07 Sep 2007]
Citrix snaffles XenSource for half a billion dollars
News Citrix makes so-called thin client software that delivers business applications from servers to desktop computers. By acquiring XenSource, the company intends to move into the adjacent server and desktop virtualisation market. [16 Aug 2007]
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