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Intel considers European open source lab
News Intel contributed to the $24m (£16.4m) of funding behind the lab. The first Open Source Development Laboratory -- a non-profit alliance of Linux distributors and hardware manufacturers -- was formed in Portland Oregon in January.
[March 7, 2001, 9:10]
Government launches open source test lab
News Access to the lab for public sector organisations is free and NCC can assist users in designing tests and reporting on the trials. Lab technicians were able to analyse Cheshire's requirements and propose an innovative solution.
[June 20, 2005, 15:00]
Cooperative open source testbed opens doors
News Among those providing $24m funding over two years for the Open Source Development Lab are Hewlett-Packard, Intel, IBM, Computer Associates, NEC, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Dell and SGI. The Open Source Development Lab, though, is one of a host of efforts...
[January 24, 2001, 9:26]
Second Life goes open source
News On Monday afternoon, Linden Lab announced that it is releasing the code of its Viewer application to the open-source software development community. Open sourcing is the most important decision we've made in seven years of Second Life development...
[January 8, 2007, 15:57]
Microsoft appoints Linux interoperability chief
News Tom Hanrahan, former director of engineering at the Linux Foundation — which was formed by the merger of the Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group — will head up the Interoperability Lab and take the job title of director of...
[June 11, 2007, 14:32]
$100 PC project will 'invigorate Linux desktop push'
News Red Hat, which formally announced its participation in the scheme on Monday, has been tacitly involved in the project since April 2005 when Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and co-founder of MIT's Media Lab, claimed to be interested in basing the...
[January 31, 2006, 9:30]
Open-source community reacts to Microsoft move
News Hilf previously ran Microsoft's Linux lab and was an Linux deployment specialist at IBM. Jim Zemlin, Linux Foundation executive director: "The world of software development has been marching in a steady direction toward being open and transparent.
[February 22, 2008, 12:42]
LinuxWorld: Telecoms connect to server Linux group
News Intel, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and NEC founded the Open Source Development Lab in 2000 to improve Linux on powerful servers. For all your GNU/Linux and open source news, from the latest kernel releases to the newest distributions, see ZDNet UK's...
[January 31, 2002, 12:04]
Linux lab revamps supercomputer plans
News The Open Source Development Lab, a programming centre devoted to bringing high-end features to Linux, announced a new chief executive and an expanded partnership plan on Monday. Cohen most recently was vice president of marketing and business...
[April 22, 2003, 10:24]
Linux lab hires heavy hitters
News A day after Linux founder Linus Torvalds joined the Open-Source Development Lab, the group has hired another top programmer, Andrew Morton, who will assume responsibility for the upcoming 2.6 version of Linux.
[July 3, 2003, 8:59]
Linux lab wants non-tech members
News The Open Source Development Lab, a group dedicated to building high-end features into Linux, has taken its first step in a plan to expand its membership beyond the computing industry. The lab has been trying to broaden its membership to include...
[July 25, 2003, 10:34]
Torvalds gets legal protection force
News The Open Source Development Lab will pay its law firm to represent Linus Torvalds, the Linux operating system founder and leader who this week was subpoenaed in connection with a $3bn suit against IBM.
[November 14, 2003, 10:05]
Microsoft proposes open source alliance
News While we have done some research in our Linux and open source lab, there's not yet any substantial, fact-based research out there on Linux to help customers make value-based IT decisions. Microsoft has approached the Open Source Development Labs...
[August 25, 2005, 8:35]
Microsoft aims for open-source certification
News The plans were also detailed by Jon Rosenberg, Microsoft's director of source programs, on Port 25, a website that's part of Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab. Ironically, the move comes amid accelerating antagonism of the open-source industry...
[July 30, 2007, 18:13]
LinuxWorld: What's in store for open source?
News Thurs 31 Jan: Several telecommunications companies have joined the Open Source Development Lab Many developers are getting frustrated with the Linux founder for not keeping up with minor fixes to the open-source OS
[January 30, 2002, 12:49]
Desktop Linux wins powerful supporters
News And the Open Source Development Lab, which so far has concentrated on Linux for the data storage and processing computers called servers, expects to launch a new group to concentrate on desktop needs starting next year.
[November 12, 2003, 7:45]
Linux to get mainstream server tests
News The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) has released three speed tests, or benchmarks, that correspond to three tests from the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). You have to have something you can do in the near real-time of Linux...
[March 3, 2003, 8:03]
Microsoft offers to help Firefox into Vista
News Sam Ramji, director of Microsoft's open source software lab, posted an open invitation to work with Microsoft on a Mozilla development discussion group on Monday. The company has finally realised that "ultimately… proprietary technologies will...
[August 22, 2006, 13:40]
Torvalds wraps up work on Linux core
News The developer, who recently took a position with the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL), said that work on a test version of the 2.6 kernel would now begin. Linus Torvalds has published the last release of the current Linux development kernel...
[July 11, 2003, 12:17]
Torvalds moves next Linux into final phase
News And the Open Source Development Lab, which employs Torvalds, aligns corporate feature requests with development. Linux leader Linus Torvalds has moved the development of the upcoming 2.6 kernel of the open-source operating system to a new phase...
[October 10, 2003, 12:10]
