TODAY'S  MOST  POPULAR  HEADLINES

Google's Android SDK update finally arrives

AMD OverDrive On Linux

ATI Radeon CrossFire On Linux

Torvalds sticking to his GPL2 guns

01/08/2008  
Relevance: 6.80
Linux creator Linux Torvalds says that the GPL2 (GNU General Public License) is still the best licensing option for the Linux Kernel. Torvalds has consistently rejected the GPL version 3 licensing scheme, released last year by the Free Software Foundation (FSF), for the Linux Kernel. Torvalds was speaking in the first of a new interview series hosted by the Linux Foundation, of which he is now a fellow.
Search further

The Torvalds-Simpsons Prize

01/29/2008  
Relevance: 6.79
The Torvalds-Simpsons Prize is an experiment to see if the Open-Source community can influence mainstream media to give our hero, the one and only Linus Torvalds, a cameo appearance on a regular episode of The Simpsons.
Search further

Torvalds on Linux Security, Masturbating Monkeys, Whores and Idiots

08/15/2008  
Relevance: 6.67
Linus Torvalds is a Finnish born software engineer best known for two things: kick starting the development of the Linux kernel, and owning the Linux trademark. Actually, make that three things. Torvalds has recently become very well known for speaking his mind...
Search further

Torvalds: Fed up with'security circus'

08/16/2008  
Relevance: 6.56
Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, says he's fed up with what he sees as a"security circus" surrounding software vulnerabilities and how they're hyped by security people. Torvalds explained his position in an e-mail exchange with Network World this week. He also expanded on critical comments he made last month that caused a stir in the IT industry.
Search further

Torvalds: Fed up with the'security circus'

08/15/2008  
Relevance: 6.56
Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, says he's fed up with what he sees as a"security circus" surrounding software vulnerabilities and how they're hyped by security people. Torvalds explained his position in an e-mail exchange with Network World this week. He also expanded on critical comments he made last month that caused a stir in the IT industry.
Search further

The 10 Best Linus Torvalds Quotes

06/07/2008  
Relevance: 6.50
Linus Torvalds - a classic example of the love-it-or-hate-it type of person. Brilliant programmer, of course, and the father of one of the most extraordinary software projects in the world, but sometimes, he can be utterly arrogant any annoying, yet the other moment completely sensible and utterly spot-on in his statements. CBR listed the ten best Linus Torvalds quotes.
Search further

Open source software and the future of the world

02/06/2008  
Relevance: 6.45
Torvalds has been to Linux.conf.au and Torvalds has spoken. During a wide-ranging interview the Linux founder speculated on the future of hardware and the control that open source offers vendors. The ramifications of this are remarkable. Come hear the word of Torvalds.
Search further

Torvalds rebukes desktop critics

08/01/2007  
Relevance: 6.40
Linus Torvalds, creator and maintainer of the Linux operating system kernel, has reacted angrily to suggestions that the kernel's development process is skewed in a way that prevents improvements on the desktop. Torvalds was responding to criticism by programmer Con Kolivas, who had developed a patch designed to improve the performance of specific Linux desktop features.
Search further

Why Torvalds is sitting out the GPLv3 process

09/27/2006  
Relevance: 6.32
Why isn't Linus Torvalds involved with the drafting of the third version of the GNU General Public License (GPL)? Torvalds has frequently criticized the process and the drafts of the GPLv3, and recently voted against the license in an informal poll of kernel developers, so it seems obvious to question why he chose to sit out the process. Torvalds gives his reasons as a dislike of committees, an inability to contribute in his preferred way, and philosophical differences with the Free Software Foundation (FSF), which he suggests is trying to absorb other licenses under the GPL.[What would be wrong with absorbing other licenses under the GPL? That could essentially reduce the number of licenses one has to worry about, couldn't it? - dcparris]
Search further

Torvalds calls flexibility the 'biggest strength' of Linux

11/26/2007  
Relevance: 6.24
I made this same point over the weekend in a post or three. But when it comes from Linus Torvalds, it means more. When asked in an InformationWeek Q&A how Linux compares with Windows, Torvalds didn't go into a marketing discussion of Feature Y over Feature X. Instead, he discussed the strength of Linux's process/approach over Windows'"We are Microsoft--trust us to be your god" approach.
Search further

Showing 10 articles of total 19356 in database ( English).

[1]  2  3  4