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Linux: The forking fight-back
News There was a big problem with the level of forking in the Unix community," says Red Hat analyst relations manager Nick Carr. An initiative from several other Linux vendors is looking to eliminate the difference.
[February 4, 2005, 16:10]
Linux: The forking fight-back
Talkback I remember Linus Torvalds answer to "The forking question" was "so what". That is, if linux forks there must be some very good and acceptable reason for that to happen. In stead there is a strong demand for a standard making life easier for...
[February 7, 2005, 7:42]
Linux: The forking fight-back
Talkback Perhaps people have forgotten how a free market is suppose to work. In a real free market there are no ways to limit consumer choice other then by providing good quality solutions at competitive prices.
[February 7, 2005, 22:34]
Linux: The forking fight-back
Talkback Excuse me? Quote: "Now, so far the licence changes applied with service packs have been quite harmless, but the fact that they do change it is worrying. Very wrong, Sir. There already have been security patches from Microsoft that came with an EULA...
[February 7, 2005, 22:19]
Linux: The forking fight-back
Talkback At least the licence isn't likely to fork.Once GPLed you are in control of your software. If you go the Microsoft way you can never be sure what licence you end up with. All of a sudden, you download some more or less necessary service pack, and...
[February 6, 2005, 22:44]
Linux: The forking fight-back
Talkback My guess is that most LInux distros are far more interoperable with themselves and other Linux and unix systems with or without LSB than Microsft manages to be within their own product lines. The GPL factor keepls Linux inline regardless of standards.
[February 6, 2005, 17:13]
Trouble ahead for Linux?
News Of course Linux is forking. It's always forking. Here, forking really will zap you. Number Four: Can Forking Really Be That Bad When Microsoft Does It? Funny, I don't see any stories predicting Microsoft's fall because of forking.
[March 28, 2000, 9:24]
Open source angst: Fear of forking
News Funneling all Linux code through a small set of gatekeepers has kept the Linux kernel from forking to date, but it also has contributed to bottlenecks and delays in delivering major new updates. Is Linux forking?
[October 17, 2000, 8:12]
Gates' interoperability claim 'is nonsense'
News Bill Gates' claim that the open source methodology encourages forking was slated by one UK analyst on Monday. But Barnett believes the risk of open source software forking is low as open source licences, such as the General Public License, ensure...
[February 7, 2005, 12:50]
Latest Linux kernel due in December
News That's significant, because Linux programmers are working to keep Linux from "forking" into incompatible versions, as happened with Unix. Forking hard to swallow They are not interested in forking. The 2.6 version of the Linux core is expected in...
[November 26, 2003, 9:20]
Open source would 'fork' Java - Sun
News Java is the antithesis of forking. Schwartz said the general public licence (GPL) that governs many open-source applications encourages "forking," or a divergence among the different distributions of the software.
[March 17, 2004, 8:05]
Red Hat and Sybase launch virtual appliance
News A Red Hat spokesperson claimed that the Linux specialist had avoided making such a move because changing RHEL 5 in such a way risked coming close to "forking". The myriad incompatible versions of Unix — now being replaced wholesale by Linux — that...
[May 11, 2007, 12:44]
Key Linux group faces split
News Forking isn't all bad, though, advocates say. The XFree86 raised the forking issue as evidence of the seriousness of Packard's actions. XFree86, which sends graphics commands for tasks such as drawing windows to video cards, is a crucial part of...
[March 21, 2003, 7:58]
Linux 'not suitable for enterprise use'
News At the launch, Robb Rasmussen, vice-president of EDS Global Alliances, explained that the alliance does not consider Linux to be a suitable operating system for the largest of enterprise customers because the open source operating system has...
[March 16, 2005, 15:20]
What is Linux?
White Papers This white paper tries to address whether asking the question "what is Linux" is important because of the issue of "forking" that concerns many of us. To get a little scholastic here, we want to know the definition of Linux to avoid ambiguity.
[November 17, 2003, 23:18]
Build your own Linux server review
Reviews Instead of forking out for appliances such as the D-Link DFL-700, you can build one that does exactly what you want, and gain useful experience in the process. Why build your own Linux server? We also removed an older and potentially suspect 128MB...
[April 22, 2004, 9:35]
Nokia urges Linux developers to learn business
News In his speech, Jaaksi detailed some of the lessons Nokia had learned in its work with the Maemo developer community, primarily the need to avoid 'forking' code: "Don't make your own version," he said.
[June 11, 2008, 9:05]
Red Hat: Vista is an opportunity
News They are forking their Linux operating system. Do you believe Linux breaks any patents? First, Oracle launched a competitive threat to the open-source supplier, then Microsoft inked a deal with Linux distributor Novell.
[December 13, 2006, 10:53]
Gartner: Open source on Windows is the future
News The issue of forking between the two main Linux distributions, Red Hat and Novell’s Suse, was also touched on with Dawson claiming that the two companies will expend a lot of effort differentiating themselves.
[June 23, 2006, 14:30]
Open-source leaders fire new salvo at Microsoft
News Microsoft claims that Free Software fosters incompatible 'code forking,' but Microsoft is the real motor of incompatibility: They deliberately make new versions incompatible with old ones to force users to purchase each upgrade," the ten...
[May 17, 2001, 8:22]
