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Linux Kernel Undergoes Breast Reduction Surgery
Linux developers have accepted a patch that undoes one of Microsoft's most embarrassing open source gaffes. The problem, uncovered last week, lies in a 3-year-old piece of code that helped Linux run...
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Tech Law: Linux Copyright Troll SCO Files for Double Secret Bankruptcy
SCO Group -- the company behind a number of lawsuits relating Linux -- has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, a step beyond the more common Chapter 11 bankruptcy status. It's not the end of the road for...
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Software: Good News for Geeks: No More Leap Seconds in 2012
The order has come down from Paris. The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service has spoken and its word is final: No more leap seconds this year. That may be good news for geeks....
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Software: Microsoft Secure Boot Could Ban Windows From PCs
When Windows 8 computers start shipping later this year, they will come with a brand-new Microsoft firmware feature called Secure Boot. A year ago, Linux lovers were worrying that Secure Boot was going...
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Storage: Linus Torvalds Compares Hard Disks to Satan
Linus Torvalds -- creator of the Linux open source operating system -- is a man of strong opinions. Last March, he called the makers of SUSE Linux "morons" because of the way they handle security on...
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Cloud: Windows 8? It Won’t Win Microsoft’s Biggest Battle
As Microsoft readies the release of its Windows 8 operating system, the company is facing some tough questions about whether Windows is going to remain the world's most popular desktop operating system...
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History: The Legacy of Linus Torvalds: Linux, Git, and One Giant Flamethrower
Linus Torvalds created Linux, which now runs vast swathes of the internet, including Google and Facebook. And he invented Git, software that's now used by developers across the net to build new...
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History: Geek Researcher Spends Three Years Living With Hackers
When you're starting off as an anthropologist, you aim is to explore a subculture your peers have yet to uncover, spending years living with the locals and learning their ways. That's what Gabriella...
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History: Torvalds Kicks Original Linux PC Into Dustbin of History
On January 2, 1991 a young Helsinki student named Linus Torvalds went shopping for the most badass computer he could afford. He spent FIM 18,000 -- about $3,500 -- on a gray brick that came with a 33...
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Software: Fedora Linux Lets You Choose Your Own GUI Adventure
Linux fans hope that the interface changes in Windows 8 will drive more users to Linux. But the open source operating system is facing interface challenges of its own. Part of the problem is that --...
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History | The Greatest Hacker T-Shirts This Planet Has Ever Seen
It was a hacker conference, so just about everyone was wearing a T-shirt. And most of the T-shirts had something to say.
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Software | People’s Republic of Open Source: China Preps National Linux Distro
The British Linux company Canonical is teaming with the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to create Ubuntu Kylin, a Linux distribution specifically for China.
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Google Erects Patent Shield for the Open Source Internet
Behind the scenes, just about all of the web's biggest names are mimicking Google. That includes Facebook, Yahoo, eBay, Twitter, and so many more.
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Software | Linux World Embraces Google Chromebooks
The latest incarnation of the Linux Kernel was released this week, and for the first time, it includes code for running Linux on some Google Chromebooks. Chromebooks come loaded with Chrome OS -- a...
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Microchips | Inventors Seek to Save Art of Handwriting With Linux Pen
What if your pen could warn you about spelling mistakes, just like your word processor? Lernstift -- German for "learning pen" -- is a Linux-based smart pen that not only corrects spelling, but can...
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Software | Linus Torvalds Defends His God-Given Right to Offend You
Is meanness the secret sauce of a winning open-source project? It might be, according to Linus Torvalds, the guy who's been running the Linux kernel project for the past 22 years. This week, Torvalds...
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Software | Why This Hacker Stood Up Against ‘Verbal Abuse’ in Linux Land
When Sarah Sharp was a 20-year-old university student in Portland, she took on an extra-credit project writing USB driver code for the Linux kernel. She was too young to stay past 10 p.m. in some of...
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Mobile | Ubuntu Superphone Fundraiser Rakes in $1M on Debut
Canonical -- makers of the Ubuntu distribution of Linux -- is asking geeks to cough up $32 million dollars in the next month to crowdfund a smartphone that could serve as a laptop replacement....
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Free Software Robin Hood Liberates Leaked Samsung Code
An anonymous coder has posted a large chunk of Microsoft file-system software to GitHub, claiming that she’s liberating it for the open-source world.
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Busted for Dodging Linux License, Samsung Makes Nice With Free Code
Last week Samsung released software that could help a brand new class of storage devices work with Linux-based smartphones and computers. It’s a code release that might never have happened — at least...
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