Stamford (ip-192.com): Linux distributions are expected to remain niche operating systems over the next five years, capturing a market share of less than two percent because of the remaining high costs of application migration from Windows to Linux, information technology research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc. says. In the consumer market, Linux will be run [...]
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2011: 42 percent of PCs run Windows 7
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Ksplice: Oracle buys open source developer
Redwood Shores (ip-192.com): Oracle acquired Ksplice, a company that developed an open source extension allowing system administrators to apply security patches to a running Linux kernel without having to reboot the operating system. The extension updates the kernel in memory after verifying that no processes are in the middle of executing before applying any patch. [...]
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NetBSD 5.1: Update offers better Xen support
Delaware (ip-192.com): NetBSD 5.1, an open source version of the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) operating system, has been released. It provides better hardware support, includes a variety of security and bug fixes, and adds new features. To improve parity rewrite times after unclean shutdown, RAIDframe parity maps have been added. Xen PAE dom0 support, X.Org [...]
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Android OS: Google continues to gain ground
Port Washington (ip-192.com): Google’s Android Operating System continues to gain market share and is currently powering about 100 mobile devices. During the third quarter 2010, 44 percent of all smartphones sold did run on the Android OS, an increase of 11 percent compared to the second quarter. Apple’s iOS came in second, capturing a market [...]
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