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Phoronix compared the performance figures of Mac OS X 10.5.5 with those of Ubuntu 8.10 . They conclude: "Apple's Mac OS X 10.5.5 Leopard had strong performance leads over Canonical's Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex in the OpenGL performance with the integrated Intel graphics, disk benchmarking, and SQLite database in particular.

The Savannah blog provides detailed instructions on building a Sun HPC Virtual Cluster: "This tutorial illustrates the procedure of utilizing Sun HPC software stack, Linux Edition 2.0 and Sun xVM Virtual Box to set up a High Performance Computing development platform on a moderate laptop.

ENEA has signed a deal worth approximately 10 million Swedish Kroner to provide multicore technology for use in mobile infrastructure equipment to an unnamed tier 1 telecom supplier.

Jul. 01, 2009 As the Debian project releases a second update of its Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 distribution, a controversy has broken out over the next version, "Squeeze." GNU guru Richard Stallman has warned that by including a Mono-based note-taking application called Tomboy, Debian runs the risk of Microsoft litigation over C# patents.

Canonical, supplier of the popular Ubuntu distribution of Linux, is partnering with Eucalyptus Systems to offer "private" cloud consulting services.

Red Hat has launched a new partner program to make sure its enterprise Linux and JBoss software are core components of a cloud-computing infrastructure, and to guarantee that Red Hat-based applications will run reliably and safely in the cloud.

Linux developers have discovered a way to implement the FAT file system's method of operation while possibly invalidating any claims to royalties from Microsoft.

The Triple Crown of Linux conferences - if there is one - is surely the Linux Symposium, the Linux Kongress, and linux.conf.au. It was just a month ago that we passed on the message to LinuxJournal.com readers that the time to get their name on the Kongress program was nigh , and now it is time to do the same for the southernmost jewel in the crown ...

Ubuntu is a complete, free operating system that emphasizes community, support, and ease of use without compromising speed, power, or flexibility.

Red Hat , the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced that InfoJobs.net, one of the leading employment websites in Spain, has migrated its critical web business platform to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform with the help of Essi Projects, a Red Hat Premier Business Partner.

Richard Stallman, speaking at MIT in 2006. GNU project founder Richard Stallman has called on developers to pull back from Mono, arguing that increasing use of the open-source toolset could prompt legal action by Microsoft.

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"Acer ships its Aspire One netbooks in both Windows and Linux versions. Meanwhile, Dell has a new line of netbooks out, which are available with either Windows or Ubuntu.

Last week, Google announced a change in how software can run on Android, the company's mobile operating system which powers such devices as T-Mobile's G1 and the upcoming MyTouch 3G .

Every few months, the Mac web is bombarded with open pleas to Apple , asking--nay, demanding--that Apple swap out the Mach -based kernel that Mac OS X runs on, XNU/Darwin , with Linux.

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"Lenovo, the world's No. 3 PC maker, said on Monday it would start selling laptop computers preloaded with Linux software from Novell instead of Microsoft's Windows operating system." Ars Technica has more on the announcement .

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Sun Microsystemshas announced that Sun Studio 12 Update 1, a major upgrade to its software compiler and tools technology, is freely available for download at http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio . Sun Studio software provides an advanced suite of tools for the Solaris 10 Operating System , OpenSolaris , the next generation of the Solaris OS, and ...