Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Users of Sun Microsystems’ hardware will now have another open-source software option thanks to an alliance between Sun and SuSE that means Sun will sell and support SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 on ...

NEW YORK--Sun Microsystems has released a version of Java for small gadgets using the Linux operating system, the company said Wednesday. Sun (sunw) has a lukewarm attitude about the Linux operating ...

When I ran into Slava Pestov, the core developer of Jedit, on IRC, I asked him what he thought of some of the increasingly popular Java-based integrated development environments (IDE) such as Eclipse ...

Linux developer Red Hat is aligning with Sun Microsystems on open-source Java development, announcing Monday that it has signed Sun's OpenJDK license agreement and will contribute to the open Java ...

Technological trends are often short-lived and have no lasting effect. New programming languages show up every year, ...

Open source Java will be brought to the PowerPC architecture for Linux and IBM’s AIX OS under a proposal floated this week that could eventually benefit the different Linux distributors. The project ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Unified standards in next-generation Linux-Java mobile applications will need to be established, as the cellular and IP (Internet Protocol) worlds collide in the future, says a senior ...

Motorola Inc. will release its first Linux- and Java-equipped cell phone and personal digital assistant (PDA) later this year, helping usher in a new generation of phones based on the open-source ...

With the Extension Pack for Java, VS Code makes a highly capable Java IDE and formidable competitor to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA. There was a time when your choices for Java IDEs were ...