Several cell phone makers and mobile operators plan to pull resources to develop a common Linux operating system for mobile devices. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, ...

BARCELONA, Spain--Orange and Access have become the latest companies to join the LiMo Foundation, a consortium aimed at promoting mobile Linux. The companies announced their LiMo memberships here on ...

Several telecommunications companies have begun an effort to improve Linux for their own market, an offshoot of a project geared toward grooming Linux for high-end servers. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

The companies include Meta, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and TomTom, which together could facilitate a new wave of geolocation apps. Reading time 2 minutes Some of Google’s biggest rivals are ...

Verizon becomes the first U.S. operator to join the LiMo Foundation, but it could also throw its support behind Android Verizon Wireless is throwing its support behind mobile Linux, becoming the first ...

Unveiled late last month by Caldera, SuSE, TurboLinux and Conectiva, UnitedLinux is aimed at taking on Red Hat's Linux in enterprise markets and Sun Microsystems' Linux x86-based server distribution, ...

One of the key differences between Apple’s Macs and the iPhone and iPad is that the Mac can still boot and run non-Apple operating systems. This is a feature that Apple specifically built for the Mac, ...

What just happened? Rust will soon be part of Linux, Torvalds has decided. The memory safe programming language will join C and the other traditional languages developers use to create new pieces and ...

In an unusual twist, Microsoft and Linux have joined forces in a legal tussle. The companies jointly sent a letter expressing their common disagreement with advice regarding software law that a group ...

The LiMo Foundation has added some members to its ranks as competition among new mobile Linux platforms heats up. LiMo plans to announce on Monday new members including Trolltech, Acrodea, ETRI, ...

Linux also supports Vulkan so you can run Windows games in Proton. While Apple does have the Game Porting Toolkit that can translate DirectX Windows games to macOS, it's still considered to be for ...