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News Representatives from Dell, HP and Lenovo made the commitment at a Linux Foundation conference last week, promising to include wording in their hardware procurement processes to "strongly encourage" the delivery of open-source drivers for...
[02 May 2008]
News Crosby said that, in general, virtualisation reduced the number of points of entry into operating systems but that vendors relying on kernel access to implement security would run into difficulties. Security from A to Z
[16 Apr 2008]
News Linus Torvalds, leader of the Linux kernel project that's among the best-known open source threats to Windows, has words of praise for Microsoft's announcement last week that it would share some previously hard-to-get technology with open source...
[26 Feb 2008]
News Microsoft confirmed it will address security vendors' concerns over restricted access to the Vista kernel, due to the Kernel Patch Protection feature in the operating system, by providing APIs for the 64-bit version of Vista.
[12 Dec 2007]
News Vista 64-bit security features, such as Kernel Patch Protection, which blocks attempts to modify the core OS, would not be effective against certain types of malware, Marcus warned. One reason businesses have not been keen to upgrade to Vista is...
[20 Nov 2007]
News Linux kernel developer and Red Hat fellow Alan Cox told delegates at the Westminster eForum event: "There is more open source work being done in Guatemala. The UK's failure to make use of open source is a "scandal", according to open source experts...
[13 Sep 2007]
News On Monday the chipmaker is launching its Mobile and Internet Linux Project website, which consolidates a number of new and existing Intel projects to improve the Linux kernel and other open source components.
[17 Jul 2007]
News One developer who's offended is Jonathan Corbet, a Linux kernel programmer and executive editor of LWN.net. Novell will share details of its patent pact with Microsoft this month in a regulatory filing that had been delayed by a stock option...
[24 May 2007]
News In an interview with Fortune, Microsoft top lawyer Brad Smith alleges the Linux kernel violates 42 Redmond patents, while its user interface and other design elements infringe on a further 65. Microsoft claims free and open source software violates...
[14 May 2007]
News But there's a barrier to code-sharing between the two projects: currently, the core 'kernel' software of Solaris and Linux is under different open source licences, meaning software from one project generally can't be moved to the other.
[10 May 2007]
News Apple has quashed many bugs detailed during the Month of Apple Bugs and Month of Kernel Bugs projects in previous patch releases. Apple has issued a security update for Mac OS X that addresses 25 security flaws in the operating system software.
[20 Apr 2007]
News The platform, to be unveiled before the end of the year, will run the Palm OS on top of a Linux kernel although the phone maker has no plans to license the technology to other manufacturers. Palm made headlines not long ago for its adoption of the...
[11 Apr 2007]
News To build Bazaar, Canonical hired lead architect Martin Poole, who had also worked on the Linux kernel for HP and who had developed distcc, a compiler that could use several machines to turn the source code written by people into the binary...
[10 Apr 2007]
News A Windows Vista PC running a screensaver consumes more energy than a PC in 'sleep' mode, according to a statement from Dean DeWhitt, the director of Microsoft's Windows Kernel team. Microsoft announced on Wednesday that people looking to save...
[22 Mar 2007]
News Kaspersky also added her voice to McAfee and Symantec complaints that PatchGuard, designed to protect the Vista kernel, is hindering security companies' work. Security company Kaspersky claims Windows Vista's User Account Control (UAC) - the system...
[19 Mar 2007]
News The update deals with nine vulnerabilities released as part of the Month of Apple Bugs in January and seven bugs disclosed in the Month of Kernel Bugs back in November. Apple has issued a security update for its Mac OS X to plug 45 security holes...
[14 Mar 2007]
News Red Hat, the dominant Linux seller, will include KVM (kernel virtual machine) in the next version of its hobbyist Linux version - Fedora - according to chief technology officer Brian Stevens. KVM, a new virtualisation technology that lets Linux...
[15 Feb 2007]
News The FSFE's Freedom Task Force unit has now begun contacting the software developers who own the copyright within the Linux kernel, and other pieces of open source software such as the Samba file and print application, to tell them BT is infringing...
[29 Jan 2007]
News The problem was disclosed in November as part of the Month of Kernel Bugs campaign. Apple has released a security update to plug a publicly known security hole in its AirPort product. The update fixes a vulnerability that affects both the server...
[26 Jan 2007]
News Linden Lab released the viewer software under the General Public Licence (GPL), the licence that governs the Linux kernel, Samba file server software, the MySQL database and thousands of other projects.
[09 Jan 2007]
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