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Torvalds's Former Company Transmeta Acquired and Gone (Slashdot)
21 Nov 2008 at 10:02am
desmondhaynes sends along a posting from the TechWatch blog detailing the sale of Transmeta (most recently discussed here). Linus moved ten time-zones west, from Finland to Santa Clara, CA, to join Transmeta in March 1997, before this community existed. Here is our discussion of the announcement of the Crusoe processor from 2000. Our earliest discussion of Transmeta was the 13th Slashdot story. ...

Linux Distros and Apple beat Microsoft's Homepage Uptime (OSNews)
19 Nov 2008 at 11:22pm
Royal Pingdom blog has posted with a comparison of home page load times and uptimes and concludes that various Linux distributions and Apple, both beat Microsoft's record. 13/16 Linux distributions (and Apple) had less downtime than Microsoft's homepage. 5/16 Linux distributions had less downtime than Apple's homepage. Four homepages had NO downtime: Red Hat, Mepis, Knoppix and Fedora. Five ...

Microsoft, Novell prepare 'Moonlight' beta (ZDNet Asia)
19 Nov 2008 at 9:56pm
As Microsoft hits the second anniversary of its deal with Novell, the software makers announce they are nearly ready with a beta version of the Linux-based Silverlight player.

News and views on Linux on the desktop ... (Desktop Linux)
19 Nov 2008 at 2:23pm
Media/DVD players target Linux netbooks ? Oct. 13, 2008 ? CyberLink Corp. announced that its DVD and media players are now available for Linux, targeting OEM bundles on netbooks and nettops.

Silverlight ready to Moonlight on Linux (Silicon.com)
19 Nov 2008 at 11:49am
Microsoft, Novell step up the Flash fight with Firefox plug-in

'Moonlight' heads to beta (CNET via Yahoo! News)
19 Nov 2008 at 12:01am
Microsoft and Novell said Tuesday they are nearly ready with a beta version of Moonlight--a Firefox add-on that allows Silverlight content to play on Linux PCs.

Cisco Nexus Data Center Class Platform Supports Lawrence Livermore National L...
18 Nov 2008 at 4:00pm
Cisco -- SuperComputing 2008 -- Lawrence Livermore National Labs has selected the Cisco Nexus data center class platform as a foundation technology for its Hyperion project, a high performance computing Linux Cluster. Hyperion helps fulfill U.S.

Get 3D Compositing Effects in Linux Without Compiz [Linux] (Lifehacker)
18 Nov 2008 at 8:34am
If you'd like to use desktop apps or features that require a 3-D compositing manager but lack the hardware power (or patience) to enable Compiz effects, the Tombuntu blog points out that the standard...

Linux on the iPhone? (ZDNet)
17 Nov 2008 at 11:32pm
Of course, after Apple develops an elegant and perfectly understandable mobile UI, Linux hackers want to tear it down. Bring on the OpenMoko, Android or Ubuntu Mobile for the iPhone.

Linux Today - Linux-Hater's Blog, Considered (Linux Today)
17 Nov 2008 at 8:14am
"And then there's this: You don't pay me, so I don't care what you want. LHB is right; a lot of open source is developed by developers for developers and underweights - or completely fails to connect with - the needs of actual users.