Linus Torvalds

A Northwest Nobel option? (Linus for the Nobel Peace prize)

Ridenbaugh Press/Northwest: "It would be fitting to honor that international effort by giving a Peace Prize to Linus Torvalds, perhaps in 2011 on the 20th anniversary of the August 1991 Linux announcement, or in 2012 on the...

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Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize?

An anonymous reader writes "I'm as much of a Linux fanboy as anyone else, but I've never thought of anything in computing as being worth a Nobel Peace Prize. Apparently, there are those who take global collaboration seriously,...

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Google's Chrome may shift the OS landscape

Google is hosting an event today to offer the first official glimpse at the Chrome operating system. Chrome has ignited enthusiasm in an operating system market that has been largely stagnant for years. Google may succeed in...

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A Northwest Nobel option?

Linus Torvalds Former Vice President Al Gore’s visit to Portland today and tomorrow has prompted some Nobel Peace Prize thoughts, and in Oregon the idea of nominating a Northwesterner. The prospect shot around the Portland-area...

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25 best quotes from tech history

Let's celebrate these sound bites By Harry McCracken, Technologizer . So I faked it by listing them using an imprecise, unscientific factor I call Googleosity: the number of results Google reports that reference (or riff upon)...

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Penguin Computing Adds GPU Computing Capabilities to On Demand Service

NVIDIA Tesla GPUs Integrated into Penguin on Demand System – Now Delivers Huge Boosts in Performance for Users. “We are very excited about the addition of Tesla GPU compute nodes to our Penguin on Demand service,” says Tom...

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Penguin Computing Announces Release of New Scyld ClusterWare “Hybrid”

Newest version of Scyld extends powerful management and monitoring capabilities to heterogeneous HPC clusters. “Scyld ClusterWare is known for its capabilities of rapid and consistent provisioning of compute nodes. Our design...

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Fedora 12 Unites Latest Features and Usability Into Compelling Free Distribution

Community of Contributors Continues to Grow The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced the availability of Fedora 12, the latest version of its...

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Red Hat Summit and JBoss World To Be Held June 2010 in Boston

Premier Open Source Event Returns to Northeast Technology Hub (pressebox) Raleigh, NC, 16.11.2009, Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced it will host the annual Red...

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Android: Handset Makers Are at Google's Mercy (at Seeking Alpha)

by: TechCrunch November 15, 2009 | about: By John Biggs When the Motorola Droid launched this month everyone was amazed that a company so down on its luck was able to put together a well-designed phone running a powerful,...

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