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Ubuntu's maker, Canonical Ltd., is defiant that it can maintain its edge in the desktop Linux space despite Google Inc.'s upcoming Chrome operating system.

Google plans to launch a new open source operating system designed for netbooks and based on the Chrome Web browser.

Five Reasons Microsoft Need Not Fear Google OS Jul. 9, 2009, 8:38 AM Google might have forayed into Microsoft's turf with Google OS, but Redmond has no reason to fear, says PaidContent .

Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Wed 8th Jul 2009 18:34 UTC, submitted by rlem6983 Google's recent move of revealing the Chrome OS to a suspecting public has put a great many people on alert.

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Google has confirmed it is working on a desktop linux project, but declined to supply further details, including what the project is for.

When we last left "As the .Net Turns," Richard Stallman was promising that Microsoft would never, ever marry his open source daughter.

The Ubuntu team has released Dapper Drake Flight CD4, the 4th alpha release on the way to the final release of Dapper Drake .

Some California pot sellers are living the high life this summer - because high-tech social-networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter are allowing them to legally swap street corners for the Internet.

The assertion that GNU/Linux software installation is broken was greeted by the Linux faithful with much lifting of eyebrows and clenching of teeth.

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.

Linux is famous for uptime, but even it has to reboot when a new kernel vulnerability is fixed.

Internet advocates have been saying for years that America needs policies to ensure "universal access," but that's a more complicated goal than just saying "everybody should have access to the Internet." A former Obama advisor says government needs to determine what levels of access should be universal-how fast is fast enough? And another part of ...

A few months ago, Canonical and Eucalyptus Systems aligned their product development to create an integrated cloud-software-on-Ubuntu-Linux stack.

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, the London company that founded the Ubuntu Project, today announced professional services to support companies who are building "private cloud" infrastructures behind their corporate firewalls.

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

FISL 2009 Wrapup - 3 talks, 1 talk show, 14 blogs, 10 videos, 275 pics, 2 GlassFish production stories Posted by arungupta on June 30, 2009 at 10:53 AM FISL 2009 wrapped up over the weekend.

"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.