"The BBC wants to release a product that would allow users to view BBC programs on their PC. Initially, this will be Windows-only for the same reasons 99% of third-party software OEMs target Windows first before providing support for other operating systems (if at all)."

"The Simple Linux Backup project announced the release of version 0.3.2 today. Simple Linux Backup is an easy-to-use program for backing up a desktop Linux system, with a friendly user interface, originator Steven J. Rosen said."

"It’s funny how things work out sometimes … When IT Business Edge spoke to intellectual property attorney Lawrence Rosen last week, we just wanted his take on GPL v3."

Why rewrite the buffer layer? Lots of people have had a desire to completely rip out the buffer layer, but we can't do that because it does actually serve a useful purpose. Why the bad rap? Because the code is old and crufty, and buffer_head is an awful name.

"The Free Software Foundation today released the final version of the new GNU General Public License, GPLv3. Novell welcomes and supports GPLv3 and we appreciate the collaborative process that led to its conclusion."

"In this second installment of the "Open Source @" series, we're taking a look at the role of open source within one of the industry's largest open-source companies, Novell."

"My colleague, Chris Dawson, has written several excellent pieces recently about Linux (mostly about the latest from the Ubuntu family of products but more recently about SuSE) and he has made some excellent points."

One of the greatest features of the Linux® operating system is its networking stack. It was initially a derivative of the BSD stack and is well organized with a clean set of interfaces. Its interfaces range from the protocol agnostics, such as the common sockets layer interface or the device layer, to the specific interfaces of the individual networking protocols.