I used to think Ubuntu was destined to lead Linux into the mainstream, but now it’s looking much more like Google–not Canonical–will be the first Linux vendor to truly challenge Microsoft. Google’s ...

Google has announced the first release of Google Gadgets for Linux. Google Desktop has been available for some time now on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. However, Google Gadgets — mini-applications ...

Cameyo by Google streams legacy Windows or Linux apps to the Chrome browser on a ChromeOS device or to a progressive web app.

Google software engineer Dan Kegel posted a message to the Wine mailing list last week describing some of the improvements to Wine that Google has sponsored in the past year. These improvements, says ...

Google has been talking about getting Android as close as possible to the mainline Linux kernel. Android is built on top of the Linux kernel, but it has always used a heavily-modified version with ...

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Even the best technology needs a sugar daddy. Seven years ago, Linux got just that when IBM said it would put $1 billion on the then-nascent open-source operating system, pushing the software into the ...

Fans of Linux, Microsoft and Macs used to be able to search for information about those topics on Google using specialized search tools that narrowed the results to a focused set of highly relevant ...

Jim Zemlin, The Linux Foundation's executive director, said: "We are honored that Sarah Novotny, one of the leading figures in the open-source community, will join our board -- she will be a ...

The first public beta of Google Desktop for Linux is now available for download. Released yesterday, this early beta only supports a limited subset of Google Desktop functionality. Google's previous ...

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