Showing posts with label kernel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kernel. Show all posts
26 January 2014

Interview: Linus Torvalds - "I don't read code any more"

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(This was originally published in The H Open in November 2012.) I was lucky enough to interview Linus quite early in the history of ...
23 November 2013

Linus Torvalds Admits He Was Approached By US Government To Insert Backdoor Into Linux -- Or Does He?

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At the LinuxCon meeting in New Orleans , Linus Torvalds was asked if he had ever been approached by the US government to insert a backdoor...
25 January 2010

Why There is no Kernel Hacker Sell-Out

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As you may have noticed, posting to this blog was light last week, as in non-existent (OK, so you didn't notice.) This was because I was...
23 April 2009

Tropical Disease Initiative Releases Kernel

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No, really : There is an urgent need for identifying new targets for drug discovery. This urgency is even more relevant for infectious disea...
10 October 2008

Linus and the Art of the Kernel Release

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In case you missed it, something of truly global importance happened last week. No, not the collapse of capitalism as we know it, something ...
12 August 2008

You, Too, Can Be a Kernel Hacker

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On Open Enterprise blog .
24 June 2008

NVidia's Unenviable Pariahdom

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Failing to take the hint , NVidia decides to remain a pariah : Nvidia reiterated that it won’t provide open source drivers for Linux because...
02 April 2008

Linux: Too Much of a Good Thing?

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The transformation of the Linux Foundation from a rather sleepy, peripheral player into one of the main voices for open source has been fasc...
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07 November 2007

Why Linux is Great, Part 9392

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What makes the code in the kernel so great is not that it goes in perfect, it's that we whittle all code in the treee down over and over...
25 January 2007

Has Dave Miller Gone Nuts?

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Dave Miller is one of the top kernel hackers. I had the pleasure of interviewing him for Rebel Code all those years ago (eek: how time fli...
20 September 2006

Why Linus is the Boss, er, Captain

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Because he talks the talk : She's good to go, hoist anchor! Here's some real booty for all you land-lubbers. There's not too man...
13 December 2005

Is KDE Winning?

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Wow. Linus " my name is Linus and I am your god " Torvalds has spoken - and the answer is KDE. If you haven't been following...