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Google rivaled by open source in angel investing? The open source world has generated billions in exits for its entrepreneurs.

Tiny Core Linux 2.10 released. It's only 10.6MB in size.

The real value of FOSS to Business. A personal example shows the way.

Germany warns against using Firefox. The recent security hole is behind the admonition.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt, speaking in Abu Dhabi this week, confirmed that the Chrome OS operating system is on track for the second half of this year. There are new reasons why its brightest future may be as an adjunct OS on netbooks and tablets. In fact, it's already appearing on devices alongside other operating systems, including Android. Find out more in GigaOM's story today.

Google and open source want to make us OCD on energy. Google's open source PowerMeter API is more powerful than you think.

137 years of Popular Science Magazine now online. Google helped make the archive possible.

Apache bug leads to update advice. IT security company Sense of Security has discovered a serious bug in Apache's HTTP web server.

The newbie's guide to hacking the Linux kernel. Kernel hacker Greg Kroah-Hartman explains what it takes.

Tux Takes a Bow: Linux at CES. A number of Linux devices are on display at the show.

Ubuntu Netbook Remix vs. Moblin. A head-to-head comparison of two mobile Linux solutions.

Red Hat CEO On Recession, Virtualization, Ballmer. Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat, says the deep recession has been a perfect storm in a positive way.

Cool Firefox Extension: It's All Text. Want to use your favorite text editor to write text for online applications? You can.

It's long been argued that FLOSS advocates should be looking at the next generation of computing devices. That strategy is paying off. More than 1.4 million Google Android (that's Linux) devices shipped in the third quarter of 2009. It's too early for numbers in the fourth quarter, but you can bet that they're even higher. In three months, that's 1.4 million users adopting Linux for personal computing. Granted, still a minority next to other smartphones, but the Nexus One looks ready to give other smartphone vendors a run for their money.

Top 10 Google Chrome extensions. Check out Dual View and Web Developer Mini.

Again, Linux is not an OS. It's not a single, coherent operating system.

11 open source business models. Count the ways that people are making money with open source.

Sun's VirtualBox revs, perhaps for the last time. Sun's virtualization tool faces a rocky future.

When Nokia announced that it was launching the Symbian Foundation to great fanfare, it had within its grasp that rarest of opportunities to move swiftly and become the dominant open source mobile platform. Alas, just one and a half years later, they have seemingly ceded that position to Android. Instead of recognizing the threat from Android and making strategic changes to counter, they instead criticized Google's closed-door development of Android before releasing a line of code themselves. When criticizing competitors, it helps to have your own house in order first.

?In October, the Symbian Foundation released the Symbian kernel sources to the world, and the rest of the world (read: developers) collectively responded, Great. Where's my Android phone? I've often lauded Google for its ability to fuse the marketing, PR and developer benefits of open source projects into one seemless operation. It would seem that Symbian could stand to learn a few things. The question is, is it too late?