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Linus Torvalds announced yesterday, April 29th, that the fifth Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux 3.4 kernel is available for download and testing. Linux kernel 3.4 RC5 includes 50% driver updates, 20% arch. fixes, 15% filesystem improvements (Btrfs and NFS), 5% networking updates, as well as random bugfixes. ... |
30 April 2012
04:06 GMT |
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The Linux Foundation has awarded the prestigious Millennium Technology Prize to Linux creator and Linux Foundation Fellow, Linus Torvalds. According to the Linux Foundation, this prize, determined by the Technology Academy of Finland, is one of the world's largest prizes with candidates sought from across the ... |
19 April 2012
09:55 GMT |
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Linus Torvalds announced this weekend, April 15th, that the third Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux 3.4 kernel is available for download and testing. Linux Kernel 3.4 RC3 includes quite a lot of fixes and improvements in various area, such as ALSA, Btrfs, USB, ARM, and much more. "Anyway, the shortlog is app... |
17 April 2012
02:05 GMT |
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Linus Torvalds announced this weekend, on April 7th, that the second Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux 3.4 kernel was available for download. Linux kernel 3.4 RC2 contains mostly some fixes and changes in the architecture files (ARM, PowerPC, x86), in the drivers, and power management. "Another week, another ... |
9 April 2012
05:44 GMT |
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Linus Torvalds could have been on Apple’s payroll, had the Linux founder agreed to drop his personal developments to do “non-Linux things” for the late visionary genius, Steve Jobs.Wired reports that although Torvalds hasn't met Bill Gates to this day, the Linux founder did bump into Steve Jobs... |
21 March 2012
06:38 GMT |
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Linus Torvalds announced this weekend another Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux 3.3 kernel. Linux kernel 3.3 RC5 brings fixes and improvements for ALSA, NFSv4, SCSI, Btrfs, as well as many ARM updates."A couple of the fixes were directly linked to my -rc4 announcement, where I told people they could use a 64-bi... |
27 February 2012
02:02 GMT |
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The third Release Candidate version of the upcoming Linux kernel 3.3 is available for download and testing, as Linus Torvalds announced a few minutes ago, February 9th. It looks like Linux kernel 3.3 RC3 brings lots or ARM improvements, as well as updated drivers, IB updates, and HDA sound updates."No big surprises, ... |
9 February 2012
04:00 GMT |
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Linus Torvalds announced last night, December 23rd, that (probably) the last Release Candidate version of the upcoming Linux kernel 3.2 is available for download and testing. Linux kernel 3.2 RC7 brings, as usual, assorted bug fixes, new drivers and other improvements. The upcoming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS will probably... |
24 December 2011
12:37 GMT |
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Linus Torvalds announced that Linux kernel 3.2 RC3 is now available for download and testing as a tar archive, from the kernel.org website. Linux kernel 3.2 RC3 comes with a lot of small changes and a drm update. As expected, the commits are small, but numerous, maybe a little too much for Linus Torvalds' t... |
25 November 2011
09:47 GMT |
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Linus Torvalds proudly announced last evening, November 15th, that Linux kernel 3.2 RC2 is now available for download and testing as a tar archive, from the kernel.org website.Linux kernel 3.2 RC2 brings architecture fixes, especially for ARM, m68k and PowerPC, DRM drivers fixes (Nouveau NVC1 acceleration and Radeon ... |
16 November 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Linus Torvalds has announced that Linux kernel 3.2 RC1 is now available for testing, and he actually took the time to explain why the size of the patches is not all that important. Linux kernel 3.2 RC1 comes with a few new features and updates. One is the introduction in the mainline kernel, for the first time, of an... |
8 November 2011
10:00 GMT |
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A successful attack of Kernel.org led to the entire site being shut down temporarily as the team rebuilds the system. So, when the fifth release candidate upcoming Linux 3.1 kernel landed, there was no place to publish it.This led to Linus Torvalds publishing the latest code on GitHub rather than on the kernel's... |
5 September 2011
12:01 GMT |
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Linux is celebrating its 20th birthday today. While pinpointing the exact day when it was created is hard, and subjective, today is the day that the world found out about Linus Torvalds' hobby project, Linux.On 25 August, 1991, Linus took to the Minix newsgroup to announce his creation and progress.By that time ... |
25 August 2011
12:02 GMT |
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Gnome 3 doesn't have too many fans among power users and when the father of Linux, Linus Torvalds, speaks out against Gnome 3 and switches to Xfce, it doesn't look good. Linus believes that Gnome 3 has serious usability issues.
"I used to be upset when gnome developers decided it was 'too complicate... |
4 August 2011
04:36 GMT |
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We are proud to announce today, May 19th, the immediate release of the highly anticipated Linux kernel 2.6.39.Among the new features included in Linux kernel 2.6.39 we can mention new drivers for high-end AMD graphics cards, ipsets to simplify firewall maintenance and implementation, improved EXT4 file system, new dr... |
19 May 2011
05:11 GMT |
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We are proud to announce that today, March 15th, the immediate release of the highly anticipated Linux kernel 2.6.38.Among the new features included in Linux kernel 2.6.38 we can mention support for automatic process grouping, Btrfs LZO compression and read-only snapshots, VFS scalability, support for Transparent Hug... |
15 March 2011
05:18 GMT |
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Linus Torvalds, Linux's architect and leading figure, has finally become an US citizen after spending more than a decade living there. The Finish-born programmer is responsible for creating Linux and sparking the open-source revolution, achieving a somewhat legendary status in the process. Torvalds revealed the ... |
15 September 2010
06:35 GMT |
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Here we go again with another nice and full of features Linux kernel version, baked and delivered hot and fresh last night, February 24th, by Linus Torvalds. Linux Kernel 2.6.33 brings the highly anticipated Nouveau open source video driver for Nvidia graphics cards. Among other features, we can notice Compcache, sup... |
25 February 2010
02:42 GMT |
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In a world where all is fair in operating system war, Linux creator Linus Torvalds giving Microsoft’s Windows 7 a thumbs-up is nothing short of sacrilege. The “blasphemy” took place on October 22nd, 2009, the worldwide general availability deadline for Microsoft’s latest Windows client. As you... |
23 October 2009
11:06 GMT |
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Today (June 10th), Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, has announced the immediate availability of Linux kernel 2.6.30, a version that brings initial support for the log-structured NILFS2 filesystem, the POHMELFS distributed network filesystems, the RDS protocol, and the Microblaze CPU architecture. It also includes... |
10 June 2009
02:38 GMT |
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None other than Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, announced last evening the immediate availability of Linux kernel 2.6.29, a version that brings initial support for the highly expected Btrfs filesystem. Btrfs is a brand new filesystem created by Chris Mason and designed to act like the ZFS or WAFL ones. When Btrf... |
24 March 2009
04:50 GMT |
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Word has it that Linux does not need its own Steve Jobs. Then again, why was this question posed in the first place? Because it's only obvious that whatever Jobs touches turns into gold. But who says anyone wants this happening to Linux? The two are simply “different.”An article outlining why "Linux ... |
24 September 2008
08:23 GMT |
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Two new versions of the heart of all Linux distributions were released: the stable 2.6.24.3 and the development 2.6.25 RC3 kernel. The developers advise you to update your kernel to the latest version, because of the numerous fixes included in it.The stable release, 2.6.24.3, comes with the following features and bug... |
26 February 2008
05:47 GMT |
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Linus Torvalds, the founder of Linux operating system, was in Melbourne last week for the linux.conf.au conference. He was invited to express a few thoughts regarding OS X versus Windows Vista in a wide-ranging interview. According to smh.com.au, Torvalds reckoned that Apple's overhyped operating system, OS X Le... |
5 February 2008
06:25 GMT |
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The operating system market is largely a three-horse race involving Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. So far, Microsoft is the clear winner in the face-off with Apple and the open source community in terms of audience. The Windows platform simply has no match when it comes down to the size of the install base, dominating ... |
5 February 2008
05:45 GMT |
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At the end of 2006, Microsoft entered a new partnership with one of the most prominent members of the open source community by inking what it referred to as a landmark Windows-Linux interoperability agreement with Linux distributor Novell. And yet, as both Microsoft and Novell indicated strong commitment to bridging ... |
4 February 2008
11:14 GMT |
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Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, has no plans to license it under GPLv3 anytime soon.Torvalds criticized the third version of the GNU General Public License from the time it was just a draft, and, in an interview for Jim Zemlin, the executive director of the Linux Foundation, he said that he preferred GPL... |
9 January 2008
10:29 GMT |
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