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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...
19 March 2009
It's *Not* The 15th Birthday of Linux – and Why That Matters
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Last week, I wondered whether I'd gone back in time. Everywhere I went online – on news sites, blogs and Twitter – people were celebrati...
13 January 2009
Linus Gets Misty-Eyed Over the Sinclair QL
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Apparently the Sinclair QL (remember the microdrives?) turned 25 yesterday (or thereabouts). One rather famous former owner was Linus; to b...
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31 December 2008
Linus Plays Prince of Persia - Again
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Most people in the free software world know that before he wrote Linux, Linus was using the Minix operating system. To run it, he had to acq...
24 December 2008
Alan Cox and the End of an Era
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In the beginning, free software was an activity conducted on the margins - using spare time on a university's computers, or the result o...
19 November 2008
Why Free Software is a Con-Trick
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A number of sites have noted this interesting study of a particular kind of con-trick, known as "The pigeon drop". What really c...
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27 October 2008
Linus Up Close and Personal
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Here's a brace of videos from the recent Linux Kernel Summit. Human nature being what it is, most interest will probably focus on the ...
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20 October 2008
The Real Story Behind GNU/Linux
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If the prospect of another week stretching out before you is getting you down, I've got good news. There's a post about GNU/Linux th...
15 October 2008
Open Source Business Does Not Scale
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At first sight, the findings of The 451 Group’s latest CAOS report, “Open Source is Not a Business Model“ might seem to be terrible news for...
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 ...
07 October 2008
Linus Has a Blog???!?
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The end of civilisation as we know it is obviously closer than I thought.... (Via DaveM .)
Get Real, People: Get *Real* People
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I'm not a big fan of top “n” lists. They generally lack any kind of metric, and end up with bizarre compromise choices. This “Top Agenda...
12 August 2008
You, Too, Can Be a Kernel Hacker
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On Open Enterprise blog .
26 May 2008
Git Gets Down to Business
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On Open Enterprise blog .
04 February 2008
Linus on the Desktop
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On Open Enterprise blog .
02 January 2008
Vista's Problem: Microsoft Does Not Scale
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It is deeply ironic that once upon a time Linux - and Linus - was taxed with an inability to scale. Today, though, when Linux is running ev...
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17 December 2007
Linus Says It's In Our DNA
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Simon Willison has picked up a nice quotation from Linus he made a few years back, but what really interests me are some other things he sa...
20 November 2007
Larry Sanger's Question
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Larry Sanger has a question about Citizendium: Suppose we grow to Wikipedian size. This is possible, however probable you think it might be...
15 November 2007
From Rebel Code to Codi Rebel
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And now, the moment you've all been waiting for: Rebel Code ....in Catalan : Una història apassionant que ens explica com un grup d'...
25 September 2007
SCO Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
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One of the many pleasant knock-on effects of SCO's deliquescence has been some long-overdue crow-eating by high-profile critics of the o...
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