Looking to dispel what it claims are false notions about it\'s philosophy on Linux, Sun Microsystems Inc., led by President and COO Ed Zander, held a conference call early Thursday morning before its analyst conference in San Francisco to discuss its future plans for the open-source operating system.

According to a LinuxDevices.com reader, the Bangalore Times, supplement to the Time of India, this morning had a piece about a new palmtop, called \"Kaii - Tamil\" (for \"hand\"), designed and developed in Bangalore by Infomart.

My goals with Mono are very specific, and I will address those shortly, but for the sake of getting things done, please forget everything you have heard about .NET.

Lindows, the start-up that is promising to merge the worlds of Windows and Linux to create an alternative to Microsoft software, has released a preview that has left some Linux customers and analysts with more questions than answers.

A surprised and dismayed Richard M Stallman says Gnome project founder Miguel de Icaza owes the community an explanation for comments made to The Register, last week, in which de Icaza advocated basing the project on Microsoft.NET APIs.

German Linux seller SuSE was thwarted in its first attempt to go public, but Chief Executive Gerhard Burtscher believes a reorganization has laid the groundwork for a second try.

In a conversation with ZDNet UK, Red Hat Chairman Bob Young explains why converting Unix customers is easy; why open source will win the day on the Internet; and why Linux will never replace Windows on the desktop.

Oracle Corp. is about to replace three Unix servers that run the bulk of its business applications with a cluster of Intel Corp. servers running Linux, Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison said yesterday.

Is use of Linux on Playstation 2 the onramp that eventually will enable Sony to compete as a full-fledged computer hardware and software provider?

IBM, having embraced Linux, now is on a mission to convince others that the operating system is worthy of real-world use.