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The Open Source Developer Labs and the Free Standards Group, two groups trying to standardise and steer Linux, have merged in an effort to increase their influence.
The latest version of Xandros desktop Linux has arrived, continuing the operating system's mission to welcome Windows users -- a mission that's led some in the Linux community to dismiss it as "Linux with training wheels."
A consortium of companies plan to standardise certain aspects of Linux on mobile phones.
Enterprise software vendor Computer Associates (CA) has backed the body behind the main cross-vendor Linux standardisation project in a move described by the body's chief as indicating a "critical mass" for the project.
A consortium of Linux vendors created to promote the commercial use of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution has released its first product, and plans more.
Community developers claim the Linux Standards Base could be the perfect retort to fragmentation scare stories bandied about by critics of open source.
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