Symbian has released the platform micro kernel, and supporting development kit, under the Eclipse Public License, proving, the pioneer in mobile operating systems says, that the Symbian Foundation is shifting to an open source model faster than anticipated.
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A group of developers has released open-source software that gives administrators a hand in making the Internet’s addressing system less vulnerable to hackers. Read more…
Is Tom-Tom (TMOAF.PK) an open source company? Two separate blog posts—one on InfoWorld by respected tech journalist Bill Snyder and one by a self-proclaimed Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) zealot. Read more…
Microsoft released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community. The code, which includes three Linux device drivers, has been submitted to the Linux kernel community for inclusion in the Linux tree. The drivers will be available to the Linux community and customers alike, and will enhance the performance of the Linux operating system when virtualized on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V or Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. Read more…
Look beyond the traditional open source OS of choice to other free options such BSD, OpenSolaris, HaikuOS, ReactOS, and PureDarwin. Read more…
On the 10th anniversary of the creation of Symbian Ltd, Nokia has announced that they will be acquiring Symbian Ltd with the aim of opening up the Symbian OS under an Eclipse based license.
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Writer tells Penguinistas to chill on closed source
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The kernel “has safeguards in place to ensure that it will never cross streams with code that is not licensed with an open source license,” he writes. …
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