eWeek has posted a news story on Kernel 2.6
Cash-strapped SCO Group sends ripples through the Linux industry with claims that its Unix code has been illegally incorporated into the open-source OS.
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The German company says it will keep backing the UnitedLinux code base despite SCO's intellectual-property claims on Linux, as Red Hat and MandrakeSoft shrug off the matter.
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Linux has improved significantly in the last two years for businesses, according to a new study, but Unix still outpaces the operating system.
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Saw over at OSNews:
LinuxBeginner has posted a new article:
A year ago this Mother's Day weekend, I converted my mom, a 67 year old mother of 3, and grandmother of 4, to Linux.
Mom's not at all computer savvy.
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A year ago this Mother's Day weekend, I converted my mom, a 67 year old mother of 3, and grandmother of 4, to Linux.
Mom's not at all computer savvy.
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Hewlett-Packard is selling a low-cost "people's notebook" running Linux, believed to be the first time that the US IT giant has sold a consumer computer with the open-source operating system installed. HP custom-made the Linux notebook to support a Thai government drive to increase computer ownership, reported the English-language Thai dailies The Bangkok Post and The Nation.
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Linux was the talk of the Oracle database user conference in the US last week, with firms looking at evaluating or moving corporate applications with database servers to run on the open source operating system.
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Red Hat's expansion plans for Asia may be boosted by an agreement to develop and market its Linux product with Fujitsu
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After a dispute over the name of its 'Firebird' browser, the open-source group appears to be going back to using its eponymous original title
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The Linux company, which is currently suing IBM for infringing its intellectual property, saw its Web site taken offline by a 'well-orchestrated' denial-of-service attack
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PeopleSoft said it will announce plans at a customer conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday to convert its entire line of business applications, which includes more than 170 products, to run on the open-source Linux operating system.
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OSOpinion has posted an article on the Linux Desktop Myths
An agreement with SCO Group protects Linux seller SuSE from legal action stemming from SCO's accusation that Unix software was copied into Linux, SuSE said.
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This article provides information VFS. A virtual filesystem (VFS) is an abstraction with surprisingly productive uses. Several popular languages now support VFS constructs, including Java and Perl. Tcl's filesystem is completely virtual filesystem aware and is way ahead of other languages in its VFS sophistication. The concept should intrigue anyone working with Linux, of course, simply because so much of Linux's own character comes from the representation of devices, tables, and other objects within the UNIX filesystem.
Lines from Unix's source code have been copied into the heart of Linux, sometimes exactly and sometimes in a modified form designed to disguise their origin, SCO Group chief executive Darl McBride said Thursday.
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Leaders of several major open-source projects have joined George Washington University's Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute to push for greater government use of the Linux operating system
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IBM categorically declares that it "has not engaged in any wrongdoing" and that, contrary to SCO's allegations, it has not misappropriated any trade secrets, nor engaged in unfair competition, nor interfered with SCO's contracts nor breached any contractual obligations to SCO.
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