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Intel software fine-tunes Linux code
News Intel also has released Linux programming tools, has funded work to build Linux support for new chip features, and has put money behind the Open Source Development Lab to improve Linux on high-end machines.
[January 16, 2003, 8:31]
Open source rival attacks 'terrible' Linux
Talkback To declare that code which is not compliant with any given standards is therefore deficient is to disregard everything that is meaningful in favor of that which is accepted. I am amazed by the arrogance of these self porclaimed authorities.
[June 17, 2005, 23:40]
Rogue code can take down Linux systems
Talkback The proprietary closed-source Windows operating system has fallen prey to its share of flaws and attacks this year. Rogue click can take down Windows systems! A security flaw in the windows operating system has been discovered.
[June 17, 2004, 5:40]
Open source rival attacks 'terrible' Linux
Talkback To declare that code which is not compliant with any given standards is therefore deficient is to disregard everything that is meaningful in favor of that which is accepted. I am amazed by the arrogance of these self porclaimed authorities.
[June 18, 2005, 5:17]
Open source rival attacks 'terrible' Linux
Talkback De Raadt or whatever his name is may hve done a bit of work on code cleanups but that in no way at all gives him any right to acuse linux of bieng terrible IF linux is so "terrible" then why is it so popular Eh.answere that if you can Oh and...
[June 20, 2005, 12:40]
Linux firms adopt open-source media player
Talkback According to that definition a developer cannot charge for the use of their code in commercial products and still call it open source code. Open source is still 'free software' - freely available code for free enterprise whether that be non-profit...
[September 22, 2004, 16:18]
Linux luminaries to judge Euro Open Source awards
News Open source software means software for which the source code is freely accessible. Heavyweight Linux programmers are to award European companies with prizes for helping the cause of open source software in a newly announced set of awards.
[October 17, 2000, 8:10]
Linux not MS' only open-source target
News But other Microsoft officials have countered Ballmer, claiming that Microsoft already makes a lot of its code available to universities and laboratories under licensing terms similar to open-source agreements.
[June 3, 1999, 8:17]
Oracle adds data-integrity code to Linux kernel
News The open-source code, which has been accepted into the Linux 2.6.27 kernel, is designed to reduce data corruption by decreasing the potential for incorrect data to be written to disk, and decreasing application and database errors, Oracle said in...
[December 3, 2008, 13:07]
Inprise releases code for Linux developers
News Inprise has announced plans to release the source code of its Kylix Linux rapid application development tool to the Gnome Foundation, a coalition building a software development framework for Linux applications.
[November 17, 2000, 13:59]
Open source rival attacks 'terrible' Linux
Talkback In fact, the review even identified bugs in Linux (due to borrowed code) and some other commerical Unix flavors. Open BSD, via its attention to the development cycle, make Linux look like *junk* (and I qualify junk) "in terms of both security and...
[June 19, 2005, 10:32]
IBM to open source WebSphere Linux tools
News Anyone can download the code and, when it is sufficiently advanced, it will be turned into an open-source project, he said. IBM plans to open source its WebSphere Studio Workbench in the near future, Scott Handy, the director of Linux solutions...
[August 20, 2001, 9:30]
Microsoft shares source code with students
News Spooked by the growing popularity of Linux and Java software, Microsoft is opening up its source code to up-and-coming programmers on college campuses. Though Microsoft is far from offering an open-source environment such as Linux, it expects that...
[March 27, 2002, 16:10]
Linux kernel bugs squished
News In December, Coverity looked at version 2.6.9 of the Linux kernel, the heart of the open source operating system, and found six critical defects in the core file system and networking code. Serious security bugs in key parts of the latest Linux...
[August 4, 2005, 9:00]
Tiemann steers course for open source
News In 1989, nearly two years before Linus Torvalds ever wrote a line of Linux code, Michael Tiemann had already co-founded a business based around an open-source programming tool called the GCC compiler.
[December 5, 2002, 7:22]
Unix users up in arms at Bill Gates' knighthood
Talkback Bottom line : Despite constant boasts from the open source/linux crazies about how secure and bullet proof open source is, in practice it doesn't even come close to being secure, having had your very source code getting hacked into and compromised...
[January 30, 2004, 17:49]
SCO: Our code is in Linux
News Lines from Unix's source code have been copied into the heart of Linux, sometimes exactly and sometimes in a modified form designed to disguise their origin, SCO Group chief executive Darl McBride said Thursday.
[May 2, 2003, 7:22]
Why Microsoft code leak worries me
Talkback The Shared Source scheme was entirely Microsoft's idea, being Microsoft's response to the freely available GNU/Linux source code. The Linux Community most definitely does NOT want to see Microsoft's code, since this could potentially open the door...
[February 17, 2004, 18:01]
Rogue code can take down Linux systems
News Linux users have been urged to fix a flaw in the core component of the open-source operating system, following the public release of code that could be used to crash Linux systems. The program, dubbed "evil.c," causes problems with the code sent to...
[June 16, 2004, 8:55]
Attacker attempts to plant Trojan in Linux
News The public database was used only to provide the latest beta, or test version, of the Linux kernel to users of the Concurrent Versions System (CVS), which is a program designed to manage source code. The changes, which would have introduced a...
[November 7, 2003, 7:39]
