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OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

At $156.6 million, Red Hat's first quarter revenue is up 32 percent year-over-year, and Matt Asay notes that it increased R&D spending by 33 percent.....

Openmoko is shipping its Linux-based, open source Neo Freerunner phone to five newly announced distributors, in Germany, France, and India.....

Wired weighs in on Google's Android OS.....

Coverity's David Maxwell on quality issues in open source software.....



LiMo Foundation Says It Welcomes the Symbian Foundation

As we posted yesterday, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT Docomo announced today that they will unite the Symbian OS, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) into one open source mobile software platform. In conjunction, a number of members have announced the Symbian Foundation, to oversee the new platform. Now, the LiMo Foundation--which has a Linux-based mobile platform that will arrive on many phones later this year--has issued a statement welcoming the Symbian Foundation. Will we in fact see fierce competition between these two entities?


Symbian to Go Open Source, Nokia to Buy Out Symbian Shares

There's more momentum on the mobile open source front. Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT Docomo announced today that they will unite Symbian OS, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) into one open mobile software platform. In addition, the Symbian Foundation is now formed, with many prominent early members, including AT&T, LG Electronics, Samsung, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone. Nokia will also buy out the remaining shares of Symbian Limited that it doesn't already own, for $410 million. Is Nokia only aiming to stop paying hefty Symbian license fees, or does this point to a promising new open source mobile platform? What does this mean for Linux phones?


Learn Android Development at Big Nerd Ranch Bootcamp

Android IconFaster than you can say, Where's the Missing Manual? the dudes at Big Nerd Ranch have put together Android Bootcamp so sys admins and developers can learn all there is to know about Google's new foray into the world of mobile technology. Known for it's intensive, hands-on training courses, the Ranch is a popular way to get specialized Unix instruction on a variety of topics including Ruby on Rails, Perl, Python, and more.

 



OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

The Linux kernel development community is petitioning for open Linux kernel drivers, and the Linux Foundation has posted a supportive statement.ﾠ As Matt Asay says, and as we've said before this has been a long time coming....

Phones based on Google's Android platform are being delayed until the fourth quarter. ﾠ ZDNet sees it as the carriers' fault.....

HP has announced the contribution of its Tru64 UNIX Advanced File System (AdvFS) source code to the open source community.....

Parascale, focused on storage for cloud computing, has raised $11.37 million in Series A venture funding.....



GigaOm: Will Firefox Mobile Make It in Time?

You may have seen our recent coverage of Mozilla's work on a new mobile browser, dubbed Fennec.ﾠ It has tremendous promise, in some people's eyes, as a svelte browser that can deliver a Firefox-like experience on upcoming Android- and Linux-based phones. Over on our sister site, GigaOm, Stacey Higginbotham has an interesting rebuttal, though: She says it may be too late for Mozilla. She argues that Webkit-based browsers are farther along, and points to the success of Opera Mini as a mobile browser. Check it out.


The iPhone Apps Look Good: Spend Some Money Google!

At yesterday's Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, where Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone 3G and numerous other initiatives, it became very clear that the coming battle among smartphones will be largely decided on? the basis of who gets the best applications. Applications built with the upcoming iPhone 2.0 SDK looked very mature, and there were many demonstrations showing how easy they were to create. What does this mean for Google's Linux-based Android mobile platform and the wave of Linux-based phones expected later this year?


VenCorps: Crowd-Sourcing Venture Capital Funding

Many people in the open source community agree that more economic fairness in the open source ecosystem could help users and developers alike. Increasingly, big tech companies are waking up to the concept, as seen in the hefty cash prizes that Google awarded top developers in its Android Developer Challenge. Now, a new venture capital-driven effort is taking shape that will ask for community participation in identifying startup companies to invest in. Dubbed VenCorps, Webware has an interesting analysis of it. I'm betting that some of the capital will go to open source developers.


GigaOm: The Mobile Linux War

With a series of Linux-based phones based on the LiMO platform coming this year, and phones based on Google's Linux-based Android platform, is there risk of market fragmentation? We've looked at the platform prospects before. Now, Stacey Higginbotham, on our sister blog GigaOm, has an analysis of what we can expect to see. She also wonders why ABI Research keeps adjusting its predictions for Linux smartphone market share. Check it out.