Linux application development has always been a tricky business. Although Linux is a solid platform, it is often hard for independent software vendors to develop and maintain packages for all ...

Borland took the wraps off the Kylix, the first rapid application development (RAD) tool for Linux Wednesday, designed to revolutionise the creation of applications for Linux. Kylix -- which Borland ...

Google is developing a Linux terminal app for Android. The Terminal app can be enabled via developer options and will install Debian in a virtual machine. This app is likely intended for Chromebooks ...

Linux is more than just an operating system; it is a testament to the power of open source philosophy. Initiated by Linus Torvalds, Linux quickly became a flagbearer for open source development, ...

Creating and maintaining a custom Web-based application with Java and Linux is almost 40 percent more expensive than using Microsoft Corp.’s software, a Microsoft-commissioned report from Forrester ...

Giga’s findings indicate that, as a portal application development platform, running .NET on Windows offers substantial cost savings over Linux and the J2EE development environment — as much as 25 to ...

Valve is developing Lepton, an Android compatibility layer for Linux, enabling Android apps and games to run natively on ...

Many reasons exist why Linux is a good operating system for embedded applications. Besides being open source and cost effective, one of the most important reasons is portability; a Linux application ...

If you are an enterprise application developer, it’s a good bet that at some point you will be asked to write an application that runs on a Linux box. If all your experience up to that point is on ...

Motorola will announce on Thursday that it has joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer member and is proposing a project to boost mobile Linux application development. With Strategic ...

The Linux Phone Standards Forum (LiPS) today announced its plans to publish components of the LiPS 1.0 specification documents: the first content to emerge from the organization since it was founded ...