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Large public-sector Linux project flops
News A publicly funded Linux project which cost UK taxpayers half-a-million pounds has flopped. Birmingham City Council began the project — one of the largest public-sector Linux projects in the UK — in May 2005 to evaluate the potential of open-source...
[November 13, 2006, 11:35]
BigTux project shows Linux scaling to 64 processors
News Some patching was necessary, he said, but "all patches developed for the BigTux project are going into the mainstream Linux kernel and are included in standard distributions. With no serial jobs a performance improvement of 64 would have been...
[January 18, 2005, 14:55]
Welsh desktop Linux project is making slow progress
News A project that started in 2003 to translate a Linux desktop environment into Welsh is expected to take another two years to complete, according to project co-ordinator Kevin Donnelly. The translation project, known as Kywaith Kyfieithu, aims to...
[January 9, 2006, 15:50]
Xbox Linux project gets $200,000 developer lure
News A software development project aimed at getting the Linux operating system to run on Xbox received a boost on Monday, when an unnamed donor agreed to pay successful contributors a total of $200,000 (about £140,000).
[July 2, 2002, 16:21]
Improving Verification, Validation, and Test of the Linux Kernel: The Linux Stabilization Project
White Papers This paper highlights one project that involves a disciplined test approach to the kernel: the OSDL Linux Stabilization project. The test philosophy behind the blending of commercial software test practices with the methods used in the open source...
[April 4, 2007, 1:00]
Trillian project promises Linux for Itanium
News These distributors have formed an alliance Trillian project aimed at making sure that the very first machines based on Intel's Itanium processors will be capable of running Linux. Sridhar Chilukuri, director of business development for VA Linux...
[December 15, 1999, 15:21]
Criticism mounts over Birmingham's Linux project
News Criticism is mounting over the termination of a large-scale Linux project in Birmingham. The council planned to roll out Linux software and applications on 1,500 desktops in libraries across the city, but in the end it got no further than a 200...
[November 17, 2006, 14:59]
$100 PC project will 'invigorate Linux desktop push'
News Speaking to ZDNet UK on Monday, Mike Evans, vice-president of corporate development said that although this is not the primary aim of the project, a cheap ubiquitous open-sourced based laptop would potentially initiate an increased interest in...
[January 31, 2006, 9:30]
Via project to boost Linux support
News Via Technologies, a supplier of chipsets and x86 processors, has launched a project to improve support for its products with Linux and other open-source platforms. Announced at the not-for-profit Linux Foundation's annual Collaboration Summit in...
[April 9, 2008, 14:23]
Pioneering desktop Linux project put on ice
Talkback It would be interesting to see if the Great Philanthropist has stopped off in Olso recently for a 'quiet chat'?
[September 6, 2006, 13:29]
BigTux project shows Linux scaling to 64 processors
Talkback Just getting better and better and one bigg advance with linux is that the next kerner will produce, again, better perfomance on the previuos hardware.
[January 18, 2005, 18:27]
BigTux project shows Linux scaling to 64 processors
Talkback How long did the kernel compile take with all the processors running?
[January 21, 2005, 10:57]
Pioneering desktop Linux project put on ice
News The next stage of the project was to be a Linux migration on the desktop.The suspension of this project has been reported by analysts as evidence that open source software isn't ready for mass deployment on the desktop
[September 5, 2006, 16:10]
$100 PC project will 'invigorate Linux desktop push'
Talkback Seymour Papert, who is a member of OLPC and the co-developer of programming language LOGO for Lego Mindstorms, may be a key factor of this project. The importance of $100 PC lies on not the computer itself but the educational applications which...
[January 30, 2006, 18:00]
Linux will power IBM supercomputer project
News Linux will be the main operating system for IBM's upcoming family of "Blue Gene" supercomputers -- a major endorsement for the operating system and the open-source computing model it represents. The decision to adopt Linux came, in part, as a...
[October 25, 2002, 7:55]
The Linux/ia64 Project: Kernel Design and Status Update
White Papers To provide for early availability of Linux on this platform, the port started over two years ago at HP Labs and grew to become an industry wide effort. The paper also gives a brief update on the application level developments including the software...
[April 19, 2007, 1:00]
Hikal Powers Mission Critical ERP Project With Red Hat Enterprise Linux
White Papers As a solution Hikal decided to take the mission critical plunge with Linux by hosting the Oracle E-business suite on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server. A technology driven company, Hikal began its operations in 1988 and established itself as...
[April 18, 2007, 1:00]
SGI to announce high performance Linux project
News Silicon Graphics has begun work on an open-source version of a development tool for high-performance computing programmers that has been available only as a proprietary product, the company plans to announce on Thursday.
[October 21, 2004, 12:45]
Thailand plans cheap wireless
News Thailand's infocom minister is to chair a "Budget Wireless Project" working group, following earlier successes at bringing cheap Linux computers and cheaper software to the Thai public. The project calls for sales of inexpensive mobile phones...
[November 27, 2003, 9:30]
Microsoft denies role in Birmingham Linux flop
News Microsoft has insisted it did not slash its software prices to encourage Birmingham City Council to abort its Linux project. Birmingham pulled the plug on its open-source desktop project after it found that an upgrade to Windows XP was cheaper.
[November 23, 2006, 10:09]
