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Programmer Puts Penguin On Xbox
News Steil is the head of the Xbox Linux Project, which is marshalling volunteers to figure out a way to run Linux -- which directly competes with Microsoft's Windows operating system -- on the console without using any of Microsoft's proprietary...
[July 8, 2002, 15:25]
Microsoft Deploys Linux Watchers...
News It is the brainchild of Linus Torvalds, a 29-year-old Finn who helps co-ordinate a global network of volunteers who refine and test the program. In what amounts to a case of "The Empire Strikes Back," the software giant in recent weeks has deployed...
[May 21, 1999, 15:53]
A Year Ago: Microsoft Deploys Linux Watchers...
News It is the brainchild of Linus Torvalds, a 29-year-old Finn who helps co-ordinate a global network of volunteers who refine and test the program. In what amounts to a case of "The Empire Strikes Back," the software giant in recent weeks has deployed...
[May 22, 2000, 7:02]
Row Brewing Over Linux Patches
News The proposal comes after many developers have grown frustrated with Torvalds for not keeping up with the slew of minor fixes hatched by volunteers, said Landley. A proposal to help Linus Torvalds keep up with patches for Linux has sparked a...
[February 1, 2002, 6:01]
Red Hat Must Wait For SCO Ruling
News The cases have raised some concerns about Linux, an open-source operating system initially created by volunteers worldwide and later boosted by help from most of the world's largest technology companies, but its adoption continues to surge.
[April 8, 2004, 11:50]
Sharp Hones New Linux Handheld
News Linux is open-source software that depends on a community of developers--some volunteers and some working for companies--to expand and update the operating system. Sharp is preparing to release a handheld computer in the United States that uses a...
[October 8, 2001, 10:27]
Open-source Approach Fades In Tough Times
News In the case of Linux, participants include not only several companies that distribute Linux but also larger corporations such IBM and Intel, as well as volunteers all over the world. One key motivation said to drive volunteers to open-source...
[November 20, 2001, 13:03]
Embedded Linux Alive And Kicking
News Linux, unlike proprietary Windows and Unix, may be freely changed or distributed by anyone and is developed in the open by volunteers and several companies. The hype that spawned several Linux start-ups has vanished, but a pioneer in operating...
[January 24, 2002, 8:52]
IBM Confronts Sun In Unix Face-off
News IBM, unlike Sun, is a firm backer of the Linux operating system, a clone of Unix developed cooperatively by numerous companies and volunteers. The feature allows Linux programs to take advantage of AIX features such as higher performance and...
[April 23, 2001, 12:45]
Lotus Founder Preps Open Source Outlook Alternative
News OSAF is actively enlisting volunteers to help develop the product. Kapor envisions the software that comes out of OSAF developing a grassroots following similar to Linux, the open-source operating system that now rivals Microsoft Windows.
[October 23, 2002, 8:02]
UnitedLinux Responds To Licensing Concerns
News Since nearly all of the volunteers from the Free Software community (your fellow developers) did not receive a copy of the so-called 'closed beta', we ask that in a show of good faith, you make available at least the terms of distribution you used...
[September 23, 2002, 16:23]
SGI Takes On Linux Evangelist 'Maddog'
News We want to get more active in sponsoring things going on in the community, such as the pool of open-source programmers who collectively create Linux, often as volunteers," McNamara said. One of the industry's oldest advocates of the Linux operating...
[October 4, 2002, 16:01]
Wikipedia: Fitting The Open Source Framework
News The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia is often referred to as an open source project because it is written, edited and policed by a global group of volunteers. Linux operating system, which has strict controls and is monitored by a handful of people...
[December 13, 2005, 13:55]
Patching Things Up
Blog Comment When Linux on the desktop is is common enough to attract significant amounts of malware I suspect updating via (moderately）trusted repositories will become more problematic, though perhaps that's not insoluble if enough volunteers are prepared...
[September 28, 2008, 11:54]
One Man Linux Band Aims To Write 500,000 Lines Of Code
News However, Weatherley is looking for a volunteers to help build the class library. Portable.NET is designed to run on a variety of operating system platforms -- GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, MacOS, Windows, PDAs -- whereas Microsoft only caters for...
[January 31, 2002, 14:30]
Sun's UltraSparc III Charges Up
News Linux is developed by volunteers and several allied companies. Linux is a clone of the venerable but complicated Unix operating system, of which Sun's Solaris is one of several "flavours. Shoemaker derided a central plank in IBM's server strategy...
[January 17, 2002, 13:53]
Cooperative Open Source Testbed Opens Doors
News Some are volunteers and some are paid for their efforts, but the open source world generally lacks the central planning and funding of traditional proprietary software projects. The lab is important for Intel, whose chips are the most popular...
[January 24, 2001, 9:26]
SAP Signs Up With Open-source Database
News Linux is controlled by founder Linus Torvalds along with a large number of lieutenants scattered across the globe, some volunteers and some others who are paid by various companies. Mickos likened the SAP-MySQL partnership to IBM's embrace of Linux...
[May 28, 2003, 8:24]
Hackers Make Xbox Into A Windows PC
News The Xbox Linux Project, as the group of volunteers calls itself, is attempting to circumvent the security built into the gaming console to allow it to be used as a normal PC. The programmers said that they used Mandrake Linux 9.0 as a host...
[September 30, 2002, 12:49]
Sun Takes A Leap Into Linux
News Linux is a clone of Unix created by hundreds of open-source programmers, often volunteers, who share programming code without the constraints that keep proprietary the inner workings of software such as IBM's DB2 or Microsoft Windows.
[August 5, 2002, 8:52]
