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Microsoft proposes open source alliance
News Microsoft has approached the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), home of Linus Torvalds, to propose working together on a Windows vs Linux analysis. Redmond is hoping to woo the open source organisation into conducting what it calls "independent...
[August 25, 2005, 8:35]
Who is the open source community?
News Oh, we know the big names, Linus Torvalds of Linux fame, Larry Wall of Perl, Jeremy Allison of Samba, and so on. Who is the open-source community, anyway? But who makes up the rank and file? The first objective answers are in the University of...
[October 29, 1999, 15:59]
Linux adds InfiniBand support
News Linux leader Linus Torvalds on Saturday accepted support for the InfiniBand high-speed networking technology into the latest version of the Linux kernel, the core software at the heart of the open source operating system.
[January 21, 2005, 16:20]
Linux Focus: The Linux Story - Part 1
News In 1991 a student at the University of Helsinki in Finland, Linus Torvalds, started what became the heart of the Linux kernel. Linus posted the source code for the kernel for anyone to look at, modify and, most importantly, add to.
[June 9, 1998, 15:58]
OSDL gives Microsoft the cold shoulder
News The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), home of Linus Torvalds, is unlikely to be accepting Microsoft's offer to jointly finance research into the Windows v Linux debate. The offer, made by Microsoft's general manager of platform strategy Martin...
[August 31, 2005, 9:35]
AOL, Compaq, Sony invest in Transmeta
News Nine new computer-industry heavyweights have announced investments in Transmeta, the microprocessor startup that includes Linux creator Linus Torvalds among its engineers. The new backers, bringing in a total of $72m (about £43m) of capital, are...
[April 25, 2000, 15:40]
Linux expert blasts movie industry over DVD
News Internationally renowned Linux expert and kernel hacker Alan Cox, has endorsed Linus Torvalds' damning assessment of the current legal wranglings over the distribution of source code for playing DVD on the Linux platform.
[February 3, 2000, 15:50]
Meet the ex-Palm visionary
News Hawkins, the former Palm Computing executive and current head of Handspring, is the Linus Torvalds of the Palm community. He invented the platform, which in turn gave rise to the community. His latest invention, the Visor handheld, is already a hit...
[October 22, 1999, 11:34]
Testing times for open source
Leader Linus Torvalds famously said that if ten people collaborate on a project for an hour, everyone gets back nine times more work than they put in -- a return on investment that should satisfy the most avaricious suit.
[April 22, 2005, 13:40]
US Report: Linux builds momentum
News Programmers worldwide are adding to the platform on a constant basis by submitting proposed changes to Linux distributors or directly to the program's original author, Linus Torvalds. The platform is basically the largest collaborative programming...
[September 16, 1998, 6:51]
Transmeta's low power finds place in supercomputers
News Present were Linus Torvalds, progenitor of the Linux operating system, and Gordon Bell, inventor of the minicomputer. Troubled chip company Transmeta got a boost on Friday when the Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL) showed off Green Destiny, a...
[May 20, 2002, 12:47]
Alan Cox moves to Intel
Blog According to most accounts, Cox was second only to Linus Torvalds in the early Linux days, working on the kernel from version 0.11, and sorting out the networking. Just as we were all closing down before Christmas, Linux kernel developer Alan Cox...
[January 5, 2009, 10:58]
OSDL reaches out to Linux coders
News OSDL employs Linux founder Linus Torvalds and a close ally, Andrew Morton. The Open Source Development Labs, an organisation devoted to improving Linux, has launched a technical advisory board to try to foster better relations with programmers, who...
[March 22, 2006, 15:15]
The real meaning of LinuxWorld
News And then, of course, Linus Torvalds promises us that real soon now -- aka this summer -- we'll see a production version of Linux's next generation: Linux 2.4. Trillian introduced 64-bit Linux for Itanium, Intel's "who-the-hell-thought-of-this-name...
[February 7, 2000, 8:31]
A Year Ago: The Linux story
News In 1991 a student at the University of Helsinki in Finland, Linus Torvalds, started what became the heart of the Linux kernel. The tale of Linux is -- to those in the know -- a story of one man's effort to create an operating system with a little...
[June 9, 1999, 6:41]
Intel funds anti-SCO fight
News The Open Source Development Labs, an industry consortium that employs Linux leader Linus Torvalds, is organising the legal defence fund. Intel has become involved in the legal battle between the SCO Group and Linux, contributing money to a defence...
[January 12, 2004, 7:20]
UK adds voice to Napster Linux row
News Such suggestions have been vigorously denied by creator of the Linux operating system Linus Torvalds who told the Wall Street Journal that Napster should not be used to distribute pirated music. It follows a row between Napster users and the Linux...
[May 23, 2000, 16:52]
Crusoe chip gets first suitor
News A day after its much hyped launch, the new chip, riding high on the wave of publicity generated by the involvement of Linus Torvalds', has been tipped to appear in a variety of upcoming devices, including PDAs.
[January 20, 2000, 17:37]
KVM virtualisation gets real momentum
News One reason KVM was so easy to merge was that it was really fairly straightforward, from the kernel's point of view," Torvalds said. Torvalds, who accepted the first KVM patches in December, said the technology's lack of intrusiveness and...
[February 27, 2007, 9:21]
Linux leader wants quick move to new kernel
News Marcelo Tosatti, the deputy that Linux leader Linus Torvalds appointed to maintain the 2.4 Linux kernel, said in a posting to the Linux Kernel Mailing List this week that the follow-on 2.6 kernel is mature enough that it should be the foundation...
[December 8, 2003, 9:10]
