linux - open source
Linux flaw bypasses security
News The source code for the exploit was made available last week by researcher Brad Spengler on the Dailydave mailing list. In the notes for his source code, Spengler said the exploit is strengthened if... [21 Jul 2009]
Microsoft to license Unix code
News But SCO has recently alleged that parts of the Unix source code have been copied into Linux, and it is seeking fees from Linux users. According to a statement from Microsoft, the company... [19 May 2003]
Avinux: Towards Automatic Verification of Linux Device Drivers
White Paper Avinux supports a verification process for Linux that includes specification annotation in SLICx (an extension of the SLIC language), automatic data environment creation, source code transformation and... [04 Feb 2009]
China says 'Ni-hao' to Microsoft know-how
News The Chinese government and military have previously stated their preference for the rival Linux operating system because its source code is made publicly available. Microsoft today signed a pact with... [28 Feb 2003]
Novell 'clears' IBM of Linux wrongdoing
News SCO rattled the technology world last year when it sued IBM, claiming that the computing giant illegally incorporated into its Linux software source code from the Unix operating system, which SCO controls. [13 Feb 2004]
SCO downplays legal threat to Torvalds
News Initially, SCO said it wasn't going after Linux but it changed its stance when three separate investigations found Unix source code copied into Linux, the company said. The copying of... [30 May 2003]
Build Object-Based Filesystem Into Linux: Technical Report (LCX-SSRC-2002-09)
White Paper The source code of OBFS only contains 4 source files, 5 head files, and about 2000 lines of source. The performance of OBFS is two times as good as that of EXT2 and is better than some... [01 Apr 2007]
SCO revokes IBM Unix licence
News A significant flaw of Linux is the inability and/or unwillingness of the Linux process manager, Linus Torvalds, to identify the intellectual-property origins of contributed source code... [17 Jun 2003]
Door slams on SCO
News If they have 2,000 boxes that have Linux source code on it that is duplicative of our Unix source code, they are breaking the contract they have with us," SCO chief executive Darl... [22 Jul 2004]
Intel's PDAs: Nice new processors, but where's the software?
News But a source at Intel suggested that the CE.net kernel, on which the next version of PocketPC will be based, wasn't optimised for Xscale either. And even that "wasn't where we want it yet," the source said. [11 Jun 2002]
5 years ago... Linux users demand Microsoft refunds
News Other attempts to 'strip off' Microsoft software at source have been met with mixed responses. 22.01.99 Linux users are ganging up on Microsoft again - this time to demand refunds for pre-installed, but... [22 Jan 2004]
HP to reanimate OpenVMS
News OpenVMS 8.2 supports clusters of as many as 16 machines - up to eight Alpha-based and up to eight Itanium-based in the same group, a source familiar with the software said. A key requirement for customers to make the... [17 Jan 2005]
Issues With Generic Linux PPPoE Termination
White Paper The Linux source for PPPoE termination WillitsOnline originally selected was the Roaring Penguin RP-PPPoE, a user-mode PPPoE client for many Linux distributions. It originally took... [15 May 2007]
Integration of Runtime Profiling and Static Code Analysis in Linux
White Paper Based on runtime profiling results, the bottleneck source code gets analyzed statically, thus identifying the poor algorithms that caused the low performance. This paper describes a method for profiling large systems... [03 Apr 2007]
Using Linux Kernel Modules for Operating Systems Class Projects
White Paper A new approach involving Linux kernel modules and source code reading is described as a means to supplement other programming projects. Instructors of operating systems classes have long desired to... [03 Apr 2007]
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