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EFF lawyer: Recent rulings mean Open Source developers need to be careful

Author: JT Smith - By Grant Gross - It's been a challenging past few weeks for Open Source/Free Software-related issues in the courts. Two cases...

Patch Penguin: Evolution or revolution?

Author: JT Smith Anonymous Reader tells us about this story: http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2002/0211.scale.html. "A long and sometimes bitter thread entitled 'A Modest Proposal: We need a Patch...

Linux kernel 2.5.4 released

Author: JT Smith Linux kernel version 2.5.4 has been released. It is available from: Patch: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/patch-2.5.4.gz Full...

A titanic story – the history of the Itanium

Author: JT Smith Hammer writes: "OSNews features an interesting article on the history of the Intel Itanium, the 64-bit CPU which cost HP & Intel...

Weekly news wrap-up: Sun embraces Linux, public doesn’t embrace Microsoft

Author: JT Smith - By Grant Gross - Sun Microsystems this week announced new initiatives designed to embrace Linux, including, apparently, a Sun-produced Linux operating system....

Linux 2.5.3-dj5

Author: JT Smith Dave Jones: "Back in sync with Linus, and another bunch of pending items. Several janitor style patches also pending, which will go in...

2.5 now has preemptible kernel patch

Author: JT Smith Anonymous Reader writes "Robert Love's preemptible kernel patch has made it into the main 2.5 development tree. Read the details on...

Mandrake: ‘groff’ Buffer overflow

Author: JT Smith Mandrake: "zen-parse discovered an exploitable buffer overflow in groff's preprocessor. If groff is invoked using the LPRng printing system, an attacker...

LinuxWorld Expo refutes the FUD

Author: JT Smith LinuxWorld: "f you've ever wondered how much truth there might be in Microsoft's FUD campaigns, like the one currently under way to...

Free enterprise application framework

Author: JT Smith Derek Neighbors writes, "Responding to Roblimo's call for 'under promoted' software: I would like to introduce GNU Enterprise (http://www.gnuenterprise). I think...