TechWeb - Opera rolls out the final edition of Opera 9 for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and BSD.

In an initiative to cut the number of operating platforms in the market, a group of major mobile operators and handset makers on Thursday announced to join their efforts to develop a common open source Linux-based operating system. The exponential advancement in the mobile technology has made it...

The Motley Fool - If you follow the tech industry at all, you're familiar with the practice of foundation formation. That's when a group of companies agrees to meet, greet, have coffee, maybe a little nosh, and, oh yeah, come up with some standards for future devices -- maybe even write a little software together.

NewsFactor - Several leading mobile-device manufacturers announced Wednesday that they plan to form an alliance to develop and support a global version of Linux for mobile phones, PDAs, and other portable devices by the end of 2007.

PC World - Foundation hopes to create a Linux-based platform for mobile devices.

Reuters - A group of the world's mobile operators and handset makers said on Thursday they are to join together to develop an open-source Linux-based operating system that could to be used in phones by the end of 2007.

PC Magazine - On the one-year anniversary of the Google Earth launch, Google has added much higher-resolution imagery as well as versions for Mac and Linux.

PC Magazine - It's time for Windows and Linux partisans to put aside their differences long enough to find ways to make the two operating systems work better together, a Windows Server consultant tells attendees at the Microsoft TechEd 2006 conference.

PC Magazine - Microsoft's goal: to take the technology to a mainstream audience and give every researcher and scientist access to supercomputing power from their desks within five years.

NewsFactor - Symantec and several other security firms have issued advisories for a new vulnerability discovered in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and other Web browsers running on Windows, Linux, and Mac systems.

TechWeb - According to the Yankee Group's annual server reliability survey, Windows 2003 Server is a more reliable server operating system than Linux.

InfoWorld - According to Wikipedia, the African word "Ubuntu," from which the Ubuntu Linux distribution takes its name, has many possible translations. Among them: "humanity towards others," "I am because we are," or "A person is a person because of other persons."

TechWeb - Parallels rolls the final pre-release version of virtualization software that lets Intel-powered Mac users run Windows or Linux alongside Mac OS X.

NewsFactor - Sun Microsystems is adding the latest version of Ubuntu Linux to its Sparc-powered Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers, providing corporate customers with an open-source OS that has gained a reputation for being very user-friendly.

AP - A new version of the Ubuntu software package, a flavor of the freely distributed Linux operating system, is due out Thursday.

TechWeb - Google has released a Linux version of the search engine's Picasa photo organizer.

PC Magazine - The Linux distributor issues a kernel security update meant to address a series of vulnerabilities that could affect basic functions of the operating system if exploited.

Investor's Business Daily - Linux seller Red Hat on Wednesday said it's bought two local outposts of its biggest South American distributor to cash in on an emerging market it says is ripe for open-source software.

The Motley Fool - If you're into technology, you've probably seen a few of VA Software's (Nasdaq: LNUX - News) properties, and no, I'm not talking about any version of the GNU/Linux operating system. The ticker is a remnant of when VA Software was known as VA Linux. The company reported 3Q 2006 earnings Tuesday night, with good results across all three of its business segments.

TechWeb - A startup is looking to do to Linux what Microsoft Corp. is doing to Windows -- dissolve the operating system into the Web.