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SAN FRANCISCO--IBM on Wednesday promised not to use its formidable collection of technology patents against Linux and challenged other companies to do the same, working to dispel one cloud that hangs over the open-source programming movement.

IBM may announce within minutes that it will never use its patent portfolio against Linux.

The City of Munich has put its Linux plans on hold in response to fears over software patents.

SAN FRANCISCO -- The open source community needs fewer licenses and the large number of software licenses used to release open source code is becoming a significant issue for developers and users, said a senior Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) executive speaking at the Linuxworld Conference& Expo here Tuesday.

Intel Corporation and Red Flag Software Co., Ltd, today announced that Red Flag is the first company to use the Intel(R) C++ Compiler 8.0 for Linux(1) to compile a commercial version of its Linux operating system. Red Flag used Intel's tools to optimize its Red Flag Server 4.1 series products. Red Flag will include 60-day evaluation copies of the Intel Compiler in its distribution to enable customers to use the tool to optimize their own applications.

SAN FRANCISCO - Portraying his company as part of a global effort to create a larger worldwide software industry, Red Hat Inc. Chief Executive Officer Matthew Szulik opened the LinuxWorld Conference& Expo here in San Francisco on Tuesday with a warning that the U.S. runs the risk of missing out on the move toward open source.

The IBM PowerPC® 970 CPUs are well-designed, high-performance chips that ship in millions of end-user systems under Apple Computers' Power Macintosh G5 moniker. These CPUs greatly lower the bar for 64-bit computing on the desktop and on small servers. Currently, Terra Soft's beta Y-HPC is one of only two 64-bit Linuxes that run on G5s. As their names imply, the G5-enabled betas -- both 32- and 64-bit versions -- are for evaluation only. This article is an early look at the promise of Linux™ on a G5 and is intended for developers interested in trying out this combination in anticipation of production-ready releases to come.

ID Software has released all its major games under the GPL as soon as newer ID releases take the spotlight. But what if Doom 3, the most advanced game engine on Earth, were open sourced from the start?

Many Linux® distributions have been designed as so-called "LiveCDs," CDs that can be booted directly into working Linux systems. In contrast to "rescue mode" bootable options available with most widely used distributions, these LiveCDs are designed to provide a full set of working tools when booted from CD. Some are general-purpose, some highly specialized. David Mertz takes a look at this fast-growing segment of the Linux market.

Pictures from the LinuxWorld Expo -- people, places and things -- that you'd see if you were here, starting with the entrance to San Francisco's Moscone Center, where it's being held.

AP - In a sign the Linux operating system may be gaining traction beyond servers and other back-room systems, Hewlett-Packard Co. said Tuesday it will be the first major PC maker to ship a business notebook computer pre-installed with the open-source software.

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems will build software into its forthcoming Solaris 10 version of Unix to run Linux applications unchanged.

SAN FRANCISCO--Widespread use of Linux and open-source software is an inevitability, but the new programming technique is running into troubles with the important new technology of digital rights management, Hewlett-Packard's top Linux executive said Tuesday.

SAN FRANCISCO--Novell began selling version 9 of its flagship Linux product Tuesday, adding Java server capabilities the same day rival Red Hat made a similar move.

SAN FRANCISCO - Hewlett-Packard Co. on Tuesday began shipping its first ever notebook computer to come pre-installed with the Linux operating system.

Officials say SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, released at LinuxWorld, boasts significant performance and scalability enhancements because it's built on the Linux 2.6 kernel.

Pre-loaded, supported HP laptops now are available with SuSE 9.1 Professional.

As computer, OS and technology aficionados many of us have become all too familiar with the rivalries that occur between different camps. At some level this back and fourth dialog is healthy because it exposes others to alternative solutions which might better better than what they are currently using. But somewhere along the line, these rivalries got out of control and individuals in the same camp are creating division where unity is most needed. Daniel R. Miessler submitted the following editorial to osOpinion/osViews, which analysis how out of control the situation has become. Can't we all just get along?

Oracle Corp. recently announced a major Linux initiative in collaboration with Red Hat. The initiative is an enterprise application porting center christened LEAP. Oracle has been doing closed-door development on Linux for several years. Its development center in Bangalore, India has been involved in making Oracle software run on Linux since 1998.

IBM is offering "Derby," a copy of its current Cloudscape relational database product, to the ASF to spur more communal innovation for Java application development. By contributing the software to the open source community, IBM hopes to accelerate innovation around Java applications, which in turn will create new business opportunities based on a broad spectrum of applications, including those that use embedded databases and those for small businesses.