kernel in comment and analysis
The Core of Apple: open source spirit to guide the Mac OS
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]
The Bloor Perspective: LinuxWorld shenanigans, Psion trouble and what value stock options
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]
What's the fuss about... UnitedLinux?
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]
The Bloor Perspective: Pre-pay mobiles, Patch Penguin and Olympic sponsorship
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]
Open source gets down to business
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]
The Bloor Perspective: Ballmer on Linux, IBM's dinosaur and SQL's future
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]
silicon.com readers unleashed on Linus Torvalds
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]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Hu Jintao
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: The East-West Linux-Microsoft divide
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]
Linus Torvalds
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]
The Bloor Perspective: Mac OS X, virtual justice and MS C# versus Java
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]
Breaking Windows: Linux raises its game
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]
Torvalds: "Solaris is a joke"
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]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.11.05
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]
Caldera starts per seat charging
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]
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