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Linux gains virus armour
News In a discussion on the Linux kernel mailing list after Molnar posted the patch, Linux founder and leader Linus Torvalds asked how many programs wouldn't work using with NX enabled. Linux seller Red Hat and chipmaker Intel released prototype Linux...
[June 7, 2004, 9:10]
Linux lab urges GPL clarification
News The most notable example is the Linux kernel, but it also covers major projects such as the GCC compiler, the Samba file server software and the MySQL database. OSDL, a consortium funded by numerous computing companies, employs Linux founder and...
[September 21, 2006, 10:35]
Linux 'infringes 283 patents' - insurance group
News The months-long review examined versions 2.4 and 2.6 of the kernel, or heart, of Linux, Ravicher said. Linux potentially infringes 283 patents, including 27 held by Microsoft but none that have been validated by court judgments, according to a...
[August 2, 2004, 8:40]
Linux back on Sparc
News The boot didn't go entirely swimmingly, however: Later in the process, the file system caused a kernel panic. Dave Miller, the lead programmer for Linux on Sun's Sparc processors, wrote on his blog on Friday he has fired up the open source...
[February 20, 2006, 14:10]
Linux holds out against attackers
News Last week, students found dozens of flaws in software that runs on Linux systems, and a research report stated that a thorough analysis of the Linux kernel turned up hundreds of flaws. Unpatched Linux systems are surviving longer on the Internet...
[December 23, 2004, 8:20]
Red Hat buys virtualisation player Qumranet
News KVM differs from other hypervisors because instead of running a thin layer of virtualisation software between the hardware and the operating system, it builds virtualisation components into the Linux kernel itself.
[September 5, 2008, 15:35]
Red Hat: Linux will never compete with Windows
News Linux is the 16MB kernel of the 800MB operating system that teams like Red Hat engineer. Don Becker at NASA describes this as clearly as anyone else when he was asked why he contributes extremely fast Ethernet drivers, which is an extremely...
[February 4, 2002, 14:58]
Linux picking up its game
News By early summer the open-source community plans to have finished both Version 2.4 of the Linux kernel and Version 4.0 of the Linux graphics system, known as Xfree86, adding better support for 3-D graphics hardware as well as two new technologies...
[February 4, 2000, 7:26]
Linux on the PowerPC
News Various desktop systems and user interfaces are included with this version, which uses the Linux 2.2 kernel. LinuxPPC Inc.has released a new version of its Linux OS bundle of software and tools for PowerPC Macs.
[June 16, 1999, 8:41]
Linux firms create 'Asianux'
News The uniqueness of this partnership is that our solutions will use a server operating environment that shares one common kernel, thus allowing customers to select either Red Flag or Miracle Linux product without validating each time," stressed...
[January 8, 2004, 12:25]
Linux tool speeds up police computer forensics
News We customised the kernel and the underlying operating system so that, when it runs, it's incapable of writing to the hard disk or any other storage," Peter Hannay, the software developer behind the forensic acquisition tool, told ZDNet.com.au.
[March 6, 2008, 11:36]
Linux gains acceptance in mission-critical defence app
News Its uses Red Hat Linux with a special, multi-threaded, low-latency kernel. Real-time Linux systems vendor Concurrent has won a contract to provide mission-critical Linux software to aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin Space Systems.
[November 30, 2005, 15:50]
Linux Outlook clone evolves
News For all your GNU/Linux and open source news, from the latest kernel releases to the newest distributions, see ZDNet UK's Linux Lounge. The open-source Ximian project has released a new version of Evolution, the Microsoft Outlook clone for Linux...
[May 15, 2002, 16:46]
Microsoft, Linux Foundation unite against proposal
News The joint letter comes just a couple short months after Microsoft, for the first time, sued a company over its implementation of the Linux kernel. Microsoft and the Linux Foundation are both opposing a law group's proposal that would create an...
[May 19, 2009, 9:01]
Denial of Service attacks: Linux to the rescue?
News Although not approved formally, that version also would run on Caldera, Debian and SuSE systems with Linux kernel 2.0.36 or higher. Take me to the Linux Lounge. The three Linux powerhouses are partnering with TripWire to incorporate the open-source...
[March 1, 2000, 9:07]
Linux entrepreneur reclaims software
News For all your GNU/Linux and open source news, from the latest kernel releases to the newest distributions, see ZDNet UK's Linux News Section. Cliff Miller co-founded Turbolinux, a seller of the Linux operating system, in 1992 but left the company...
[February 28, 2003, 8:15]
Linux gets a facelift
News The underlying technology has also been refreshed, using version 2.4.18 of the Linux kernel, glibc 2.2.5, and XFree86 4.2 for graphics card support. For all your GNU/Linux and open source news, from the latest kernel releases to the newest...
[March 18, 2002, 13:20]
Linux scrubs up for medical role
News For all your GNU/Linux and open source news, from the latest kernel releases to the newest distributions, see ZDNet UK's Linux Lounge. Linux' reputation for reliability took another step on Wednesday with the introduction of the first medical...
[June 13, 2002, 15:37]
Linux replaces Microsoft at Air New Zealand
News For all your GNU/Linux and open source news, from the latest kernel releases to the newest distributions, see ZDNet UK's Linux Lounge. Air New Zealand is replacing 150 Compaq NT servers with two IBM mainframes running Linux, saving the company a...
[August 14, 2002, 14:29]
Linux flaw allows local attacks
News For all your GNU/Linux and open source news, from the latest kernel releases to the newest distributions, see ZDNet UK's Linux News Section. Programmers disclosed a security hole this week in a part of the heart of the Linux operating system that...
[March 20, 2003, 11:03]
