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Round-Up The leader of the Linux kernel project, which is one of the chief open source threats to Windows, had words of praise for Microsoft. Big, bad Microsoft has had a quite staggering change of heart. The Seattle software giant has announced it is...
[29 Feb 2008]
AS Profile Linus Torvalds makes a repeat appearance on the Agenda Setters list this year after dropping out of the top 50 in 2006. The father of Linux re-emerges in the rankings due to his ongoing contributions in the open-source world - including setting up...
[12 Oct 2007]
Round-Up Singularity - as the project is called - has been built from the ground up with the kernel, device drivers and associated applications in managed code. "What would a software platform look like if it was designed from scratch with the primary goal...
[11 Nov 2005]
AS Profile Born in 1991 while Torvalds was at university, Linux is "one of the validating elements" of open source, according to one Agenda Setters panellist - and Torvalds still keeps a close grip on the operating system's kernel development.
[23 Sep 2005]
Comment The company runs a proprietary GUI and its replication management software (called Lifekeeper) on top of the Linux kernel, and also modifies the kernel with its own synchronisation features, feeding that part of its development back into the open...
[12 Jul 2005]
Comment There, along with co-worker and chief deputy Andrew Morton, Torvalds is spearheading a new Linux development process: frequent small changes to the existing 2.6 kernel of Linux rather than a massive overhaul many months down the road.
[21 Dec 2004]
Comment He pointed out how Finn Linus Torvalds, after posting the first version of the Linux kernel in 1991, immediately received feedback from the US, Europe, Asia - all over the world. While allegiance to either open-source or proprietary software is...
[15 Nov 2004]
Comment While Hu Jintao has yet to be seen tweaking the Linux kernel, there's no doubt the Chinese premier has wielded his fair share of clout in the worldwide tech industry. As the launch of silicon.com's fifth annual Agenda Setters poll of tech's 50 most...
[13 Sep 2004]
Leader Meanwhile, China, South Korea and Japan are making progress on developing a Linux kernel for the Asian market, saying the first commercial offerings from the project will be available in six months time.
[17 Aug 2004]
Comment Broadly speaking, Microsoft sees the areas where an impact has been felt as 'community' software (simple file and print services, email and firewall/cache), 'commercial quality Community'-based software (Linux kernel, networking, web serving) and...
[19 May 2003]
Comment Sure the Linux kernel has always been off limits but that didn't stop vendors adding code. It's been a good week for vendors, developers and supporters of the Linux operating system. You could say LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco marked its...
[16 Aug 2002]
Comment The kernel was immutable, meaning any company taking the operating system could not change it and still call it - you've guessed by now - Linux. Many companies took the kernel and started selling it as their flavour of Linux.
[16 Aug 2002]
Comment Over the years the Linux community has portrayed the collective that manages the evolution of Linux Kernel as a happy, friendly group. The discussions are focussed on a proposal by Rob Landley calling for the establishment of a role, the "Patch...
[04 Feb 2002]
Comment As long as Torvalds' brainchild, the Linux kernel, is kept available for techies to work with and there are no breaches of any GPL (that's general public licence, for the non-open source aficionados) rules, it can only signify another milestone in...
[28 Jun 2001]
Comment What are the likely directions for the kernel in the short and long term? Armed with your questions silicon.com then headed off for an exclusive interview with the man himself. You can watch a full video interview at http://www.silicon.com/a44469...
[23 May 2001]
Comment All of these follow hot on the heels of release 2.4.1 of the Linux kernel, with its improved support of multiple processors and faster execution times. Last week, Microsoft's product manager for competitive strategies, Doug Miller, was quoted as...
[05 Feb 2001]
Comment It is delivered with a Darwin kernel - a FreeBSD - which offers stability, scalability and reliability. In 1999, Apple decided to re-engineer its operating system using the open source philosophy, a popular technique predominantly used by the Linux...
[29 Jan 2001]
Comment Apple is proving that operating systems can be open source without losing control of the kernel and that Microsoft does have part to play in the market - even if it causes ripples among the faithful. We finally have the underpinnings of a super...
[27 Sep 2000]
Comment Linux guru and key kernel developer for Red Hat, Alan Cox, believes that with the recent rise of Linux vendors freedom of choice is already within IT directors' grasp. IDC says Linux has a quarter of the server OS market sown up.
[16 Jun 2000]
Comment They both run on the Linux kernel. One of the biggest criticisms of Linux focuses on the lack of an elegant front end. While the techies love its strengths as a server platform, end users hardly jump for joy when they're confronted with a dog of an...
[21 May 1999]
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