WILSONVILLE, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Mentor Graphics Corporation (NAS: MENT) today announced expanded embedded Linux development support for Freescale QorIQ devices with the Mentor® Embedded Linux® ...

Those who revere Linux can’t imagine why Microsoft doesn’t just give Windows a proper burial. After all, Linux is open, it’s free, it performs beautifully on a wide range of hardware, and there is a ...

“Linux is Linux is Linux,” is a direct quote I heard in a meeting I had recently with a major multi-national, critical-infrastructure company. Surprisingly and correctly, there was one intelligent and ...

Those of us who actively promote Linux as a viable desktop alternative to Windows are often greeted with the following refrain: “Nobody will use Linux because there are no good games.” The prevailing ...

Open-source software combined with commercially licensed software has become a market reality, as open-source technologies like Linux and Apache, already tremendous market successes, are combined into ...

PARK RIDGE, ILL. — Non-commercial Linux took on a decidedly commercial bent this week, as TimeSys Corp. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) unveiled a software toolset aimed at developers of “roll-your-own” Linux-based ...

Embedded systems developers are increasingly using Linux solutions, according to a new report from Venture Development Corp. (VDC). But the use of branded, commercial Linux operating systems lags far ...

The Linux open source platform is set to go global following the support of the big IT players. But will its success be at the sacrifice of its founding principles? It's been a good year so far for ...

Linux advocates have long insisted that open-source development results in better and more secure software. Now they have statistics to back up their claims. According to a four-year analysis of the 5 ...

It's just about 4 years now since Netscape, in the pre-AOL days, released their source code to the new Mozilla project and cast their lot with the open source world. At the time there was a lot of ...

COMMENTARY--According to Eric Raymond, every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch. But is it also the developers' interests that get served? It's just about 4 years ...