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NewsLinux kernel adopts Oracle cluster file system
April 4, 2006 Oracle touts announcement that Cluster File System 2 for Linux will be distributed with the Linux kernel. - News
Linux kernel gets an update
June 20, 2006 Kernel 2.6.17 of the open-source operating system includes support for Sun's Niagara chips, wireless-friendly changes. - News
Torvalds: Linux ready to go green
January 31, 2008 Developer of the Linux kernel says improvements in power-management, energy-diagnosis tools are in the offing. - News
Novell bans proprietary Linux modules
August 1, 2006 Linux seller evicts closed-source modules from open-source Linux, but provides customers a download option. - News
Sun to coders: Open-source Java won't change your life
August 16, 2006 Having access to the source code of the Java platform won't affect how developers work, the company says. - News
Top Linux programmers pan GPL 3
September 25, 2006 High-ranking kernel coders join Torvalds in opposing the new license draft; some say it could harm open source. - News
Linux lab mending fences with techies
March 22, 2006 Open Source Development Labs expects the group to foster closer ties with sometimes-disgruntled programmers. - News
Novell makes file storage software shift
October 13, 2006 Customers coax Novell to move SuSe Linux away from ReiserFS and toward ext3, used by rival Red Hat. - News
FSF rebuts anti-GPL 3 claims
September 27, 2006 Free Software Foundation takes on prominent Linux programmers' complaints against new features. - News
Free Software Foundation releases GPL 3
June 29, 2007 The new license adjusts to software industry changes but carries several new provisions. - News
Torvalds attacks IT industry 'security circus'
July 17, 2008 Linux creator calls OpenBSD crowd a bunch of "monkeys" and criticizes those who publicize security flaws to gain notoriety. - News
Samba will move to GPLv3
July 9, 2007 The Free Software Foundation's new license gets a major endorsement from a major server software project. - News
Linux guru warns on security of open-source code
October 26, 2006 Veteran developer Alan Cox cautions that hackers are trying hard to break open-source code and that many projects are far from secure. - News
Linux kernel 'getting buggier,' leader says
May 6, 2006 Lead maintainer Andrew Morton says defects are being added to the production kernel faster than they're being fixed. - News
Torvalds says DRM isn't necessarily bad
February 3, 2006 'We are not crusaders,' declares the Linux kernel leader in a debate over proposed open-source license changes. - News
MySQL sticks with current GPL for now
January 4, 2007 Waiting for "general acceptance" of General Public License version 3, MySQL keeps open-source database tied to current version. - News
Microsoft has OS patents; Linux has none
December 4, 2006 ActiveGrid's Peter Yared says the Microsoft-Novell deal creates competition and is ultimately good for customers. - News
'Second Life' software becomes open-source
January 8, 2007 Outsiders will be able to modify the viewer software; Linden Lab plans to follow suit with the server software, too. - News
Experts say Microsoft's patent quest won't go far
May 16, 2007 It's unrealistic for Microsoft to expect open-source groups to actively seek out patent infringements, experts say. - News
Report: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents
May 14, 2007 Top Microsoft lawyer alleges in a magazine interview that the Linux kernel and OpenOffice.org violate hundreds of the company's patents.
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