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Linux: Lost in the trough of disillusionment?
Talkback You'll be missing much more if you don't grab a free copy of Linux (distribution based on GNU and Linux). It's not alltogether inacurate (none the less) to state that a distribution of GNU/Linux is 100% secure compared to Linux.
[September 10, 2005, 19:01]
European Free Software Foundation created
News The most widely known of these is the GNU General Public Licence (GPL), under which the GNU/Linux operating system is published. A European "sister organisation" to the Free Software Foundation (FSF) was announced Friday by programmers from Germany...
[November 28, 2000, 8:40]
Xbox goes online... with Linux
News Programmers are particularly fond of Linux because the terms of its licence -- the GNU General Public License -- allow them to alter the software's source code for a variety of uses. For all your GNU/Linux and open source news, from the latest...
[August 21, 2002, 13:01]
'Linux' trademark doesn't matter, says Stallman
Talkback Of course, Richard would like a little recognition for all the pioneering work he's done starting way back in the '70's, decades before there was a "FOSS movement", to provide and promote free software, so he prefers the term "GNU/Linux" over just...
[August 28, 2005, 15:20]
Java fully open-sourced 'by end of year'
News Because these could not be offered under the GNU General Public Licence, this stopped OpenJDK — used in the Fedora and Ubuntu Linux distributions — being fully compatible with Java. The process of clearing encumbrances is complex, and has involved...
[April 25, 2008, 15:05]
New Linux kernel hurries to release
News Under the GNU Public Licence, any improvements must be made available to other developers. See the Linux Lounge for the latest GNU/Linux and open source headlines. Linus Torvalds has released the latest stable update to the Linux operating system...
[October 24, 2001, 17:30]
Free Software Foundation releases GPLv3
News The Linux kernel project, governed by GPLv2, was grafted onto GNU, and the result has been an operating system that's widely used on servers and strongly competitive with Microsoft Windows and Unix. The text of the new licence can be read on a...
[July 2, 2007, 8:47]
Xbox Linux group seeks Microsoft seal of approval
News Because of Microsoft's deliberate design choices in terms of restricting the software that may run on an unmodified Xbox to 'Microsoft approved only', coming to ask Microsoft, and presumably paying Microsoft, is currently the only way we can get...
[February 20, 2003, 11:30]
Strengths of Open Source opposing Microsoft patent threats
Blog Comment Its publicity effect in favor of GNU/Linux would be much more significant than the non-hostility agreements Microsoft is achieving (Novell, Xandros). All who have benefited from GNU/Linux and FOSS have an opportunity to contribute for the success...
[June 5, 2007, 22:55]
Book publisher adopts open-source idea
News A competitor, O'Reilly and Associates, has released several books under the Open Publication License or the related Gnu's Not Unix (GNU) Free Documentation License. For all your GNU/Linux and open-source news, from the latest kernel releases to the...
[January 17, 2003, 8:57]
SuSE Linux forced to stop distribution
News Linux, seen as the only real competition to Microsoft's Windows operating system monopoly, is distributed under the GNU Public Licence (GPL), which obliges developers to make the source code for their software freely available.
[January 8, 2002, 18:50]
Mandrake takes UnitedLinux to task
News The operating system is based on the open-source GNU General Public Licence (GPL), which requires that the software be freely available, and can be modified and redistributed, as long as the redistributed versions are also covered by the GPL.
[July 3, 2002, 13:50]
Lindows faces a reality check
News Linux is based on the open-source GNU General Public License, which allows different companies to modify and redistribute the software, as long as modifications are returned to the community. For all your GNU/Linux and open source news, from the...
[August 21, 2002, 16:32]
Can IT keep up with malware authors?
Talkback But I have yet to see a GNU/Linux update that rendered the computer unbootable and unfixable. It's true that GNU/Linux has it's share of update problems. All this talk about patches keeps making the same really bad assumption over and over again.
[September 2, 2004, 8:43]
Expunging the myths of open source
Talkback It was the right project at the right time, and mated with the GNU code and other free software code such as sendmail, BIND, the X Window System sparked people's imaginations as to what could be done.
[December 10, 2004, 14:43]
Dangerous flaw in Lib CGI
News A related posting from Linus Torvalds (certainly no slouch when it comes to C programming) in a gcc.gnu.org discussion thread discusses the general dangers of code optimisation by GCC. No.reports that some researchers are saying GNU's C compiler...
[December 17, 2002, 11:14]
Sun reveals project to help OpenSolaris
News Some of those components stem from the Gnu's Not Unix (GNU) project, and some programmers already have begun building GNU-based Solaris distribution, called Nexenta. Sun has revealed the outline of a project code-named Indiana, an effort to package...
[June 1, 2007, 8:25]
Gentoo finalises 2008 release
News Other updated packages include version 2.1.4.4 of Portage, the basic install and update system, Xfce 4.4.2, version 4.1.2 of the Gnu C Compiler (gcc) and version 2.6.1 of the Gnu C Library. Gentoo Linux developers have released the final version of...
[July 9, 2008, 13:37]
SCO vs the Linux world…What's a Linux user to do?
Talkback In fact, SCO could make no claims on LINUX because the GNU GPL forbids any IP that is non-GNU GPL and thus SCO could have no claim because any SCO IP must be cleared out of it in order for LINUX, governed by the GNU GPL, to be LINUX.
[August 14, 2003, 3:50]
Vista 30 Days After Install
Blog Comment That must have been the main reason why I jumped into the GNU/Linux bandwagon in 1996: it was a chance to redeem myself from my earlier mistake. That is why I use only GNU/Linux. In the late seventies I was working for Eletronorte (Northern Brazil...
[June 6, 2007, 18:47]
