Linux news
Motorola and Verizon Plan Cable-TV-Watching Tablet (NewsFactor)
Wed, 08/04/2010 - 13:07 | by Anonymous Coward
NewsFactor - In the wake of the huge success of Apple's iPad, Motorola and Verizon are working on a tablet that could change how television is watched. The device, based on Google's open-source Android operating system, will allow users to watch cable TV on its 10-inch screen and could be available in the U.S. as early as this fall.
Why Linux Is More Secure Than Windows (PC World)
Tue, 08/03/2010 - 13:49 | by Anonymous Coward
PC World - "Security through obscurity" may be a catchy phrase, but it's not the only thing that's catching among Windows users.
Firefox Falls Further Behind in Browser Wars (PC World)
Mon, 08/02/2010 - 19:37 | by Anonymous Coward
PC World - Linux user, how many different Internet browsers do you have on your system? You have Konqueror if you use KDE, Iceweasel or Epiphany if you use GNOME, and optionally, you might have Firefox, Chrome or Opera. You might have all of those.
Is Linux Really Harder to Use? (PC World)
Mon, 08/02/2010 - 15:23 | by Anonymous Coward
PC World - Not surprisingly, the misperception that Linux is harder to use than other operating systems is also one that competing vendors routinely use to scare potential new users away from Linux.
New Linux Kernel Borrows Google Packet Speeding Tech (PC World)
Mon, 08/02/2010 - 10:30 | by Anonymous Coward
PC World - Harnessing a pair of protocols developed by Google, the newly released version of Linux kernel should be able to speed network traffic throughput considerably.
Negroponte Offers OLPC Technology For India's $35 Tablet
Mon, 08/02/2010 - 03:59 | by Anonymous Coward
angry tapir writes "One Laptop Per Child wants to join forces to help develop the Indian government's planned $35 tablet.
Linux Kernel 2.6.35 Released
Sun, 08/01/2010 - 21:47 | by Anonymous Coward
eldavojohn writes "Linus has announced the release of 2.6.35 for people to download and test after he found not a lot of changes between this week and last. The big features to look out for include: 'Transparent spreading of incoming network traffic load across CPUs, Btrfs improvements, KDB kernel debugger frontend, Memory compaction and Support for multiple multicast route tables' as well as various performance and graphics improvements.
Internet Explorer Gains Market Share at the Expense of Firefox (Mashable)
Sun, 08/01/2010 - 09:55 | by Anonymous Coward
Mashable - Microsoft Internet Explorer continues to make a comeback, gaining market share for the third month in a row, mostly to the detriment of Mozilla Firefox.
First GNOME Census Results
Sun, 08/01/2010 - 04:07 | by Anonymous Coward
supersloshy writes "The GNOME Census, a project to see who contributes to GNOME and how, has released its first set of results. The results group people by their reasons to contribute code, what they contributed code to, and what percentage of the total contributions they have. For example, 23.45% of code contributions were volunteer, 16.3% of code contributions came from Red Hat, 1% of contributions came from Canonical (which has caused a lot of controversy), and 0.24% came from Mozilla Corporation.
Silent, Easily Made Android Rootkit Released At DefCon
Sat, 07/31/2010 - 11:26 | by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes with news that security experts from Spider Labs released a kernel level rootkit for Android devices at DefCon on Friday.
