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Intel and Linux Foundation kill MeeGo for Tizen

...The MeeGo platform is to be officially abandoned, as Intel and the Linux Foundation are moving onto a new mobile platform venture called Tizen. Intel... Read more

28 September, 2011 by David Meyer
Linux T-shirt contest marks 20th birthday

Linux T-shirt contest marks 20th birthday

...designing their own T-shirts for the 20th anniversary of Linux, the Linux Foundation is asking its members to share in the work. The foundation... Read more

15 June, 2011 by Staff

Nokia gives Qt open-source governance

...project is "a welcome change", said Jim Zemlin, executive director at the Linux Foundation. "This move should allow for participation in the project from a... Read more

24 October, 2011 by David Meyer

AMD throws support behind MeeGo project

...ultra-mobile notebooks, tablets, smartphones and embedded systems, is run by the Linux Foundation. This story originally appeared as AMD joins MeeGo effort on ZDNet... Read more

15 November, 2010 by Larry Dignan

Linux Foundation sites down after security breach

Key Linux Foundation websites have been down for maintenance for four days now, after... Read more

12 September, 2011
<endeca_term>Linux Foundation</endeca_term> Conference Mobile App 2.0

Linux Foundation Conference Mobile App 2.0

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22 February, 2012

Linux turns 20, the future is bright

...marks the 20th birthday of Linux. Recently, Jim Zemlin, director of the Linux Foundation acknowledged the 20 years since Linus Torvalds began development of the... Read more

19 April, 2011

Compliance scheme aims to dispel open-source concerns

...The Linux Foundation has launched a scheme to help companies comply with open-source... Read more

12 August, 2010 by David Meyer

Samsung to roll Bada smartphone OS into Tizen

...system to become Tizen. Tizen is run under the auspices of the Linux Foundation Read more

16 January, 2012

Why Nokia will probably ditch MeeGo for Windows Phone 7

Unless American analysts and journalists are having a laugh, tomorrow will certainly see Nokia announcing a tie-in with... Read more

10 February, 2011

Adobe brings AIR to the Linux Foundation

...version of AIR on Linux and announced that it is joining the Linux Foundation. AIR is Adobe's software for running and creating web applications... Read more

31 March, 2008 by Martin LaMonica

Microsoft, Linux Foundation unite against proposal

Microsoft and the Linux Foundation are both opposing a law group's proposal that would create... Read more

19 May, 2009 by Ina Fried

Trade group: Oracle-Sun good news for Linux

Linux Foundation leader Jim Zemlin has given a warm welcome to Oracle's... Read more

22 April, 2009 by Colin Barker

Linux Foundation takes over Linux.com

The Linux Foundation has taken over the Linux.com website, with the aim of... Read more

4 March, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Fedora development 'worth $10.8bn'

...of Fedora Linux was worth more than $10bn, the authors of a Linux Foundation report have claimed. According to Estimating the Total Development Cost of... Read more

23 October, 2008 by David Meyer

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DarkDown

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Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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UnderINK

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Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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Jason Burchell

seriously now. I've only bothered to read a small bit of the comments. do me and the rest of the world a favour. stop saying it does not work or...

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@openhgs Windows users have had multiple desktops since Linus started writing Linux. They just haven't shipped as standard because not enough...

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