Motorola RIZR Z6, Linux based music phone

Motorola has had a mostly quiet CES but there were a few announcements at CEO Ed Zander's keynote speech this morning. The most interesting of which is the Motorola RIZR Z6 which looks like a…

Open-source encryption utility frustrates phishers

As far as encryption software goes, TrueCrypt may be one of the best open-source gems and least-recognized software offerings on the market. The CRN Test Center considers the utility, now at…

ClearApp Announces Linux Mainframe Platform Certification

ClearApp, the only company offering Application Performance Management (APM) Automation(TM) for portal, J2EE and SOA applications, today announced that ClearApp's QuickVision 6.0 performance…

Second Life to go Open Source

Aiming to take advantage of its already-impressive momentum, San Francisco's Linden Lab, developer of the Second Life virtual online world, will announce Monday that it is taking the first major…

EU withdraws claim that Linux support is illegal

The European Union has blamed a translation mistake for its claim that it cannot legally support Linux.

As reported last week, the EU had claimed that Linux users could not legally view its…

XaraLX Removed from Fedora

"Effective immediately XaraLX has been removed from Fedora Extras for all releases. We have taken this drastic step as we have been made aware that it is in violation of Fedora Policies.…

Linux: no longer a winner?

"I was thinking about the future of Linux when it occurred to me that one path for its future can seen as a simple consequence of what we mean by "winning." In other words, asking whether Linux…

X3: Reunion Announced for Linux

Linux Game Publishing has announced they are to publish a Linux version of the hit title X3: Reunion. A sequel to X2: The Threat (already available for Linux), X3 features the most visually…

Nokia's Linux-powered N800 Internet Tablet sneaks out early

Officially, Nokia Inc. is still mum about its new Linux-based N800 Internet Tablet, the successor to its N770 Internet Tablet, but it's already on sale in some U.S. stores.

As reported by…

Weekly Wrap-up Jan 6 2007

Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...

- Compiz 0.3.6 Released

- SabayonLinux x86/x86-64 3.25 Released