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Next from Open Source: Killer Apps? PDF Print
Articles - Virus
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 When Kirby Slack went looking for enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to help his company schedule its production runs of dental implants and artificial fingernails, he found his options limited.
 
The Big Guys Latch Onto Linux PDF Print
Articles - Devices
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It started inconspicuously in 1991 when a Finnish university student and computer programmer named Linus Torvalds designed his own operating system, as the basic software that runs a computer is called, on a lark. Back then he never dreamed that his Linux would challenge mighty Unix, a product of AT&T Bell Labs, and Windows, the mainstay of software king Microsoft (MSFT ).

 
Commentary: Tech Outfits Should Take Notes PDF Print
Articles - Linux User Groups
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 Who would have thought that something called egoboo would help turn the software industry on its ear? Yet egoboo--a nerd term for the rush one gets from public recognition, especially for tasks done for free--is one of several unusual drivers behind open-source software, one of the most potent forces in technology today. Stock options? Bonuses? Nice, but egoboo is a powerful incentive that's free of charge. Until industry leaders, from Microsoft Corp. (MSFT ) to Sun Microsystems Inc. (SUNW ), find a way to harness it, they'll be struggling to keep step with the open-source movement.
 
Pecked by Penguins PDF Print
Articles - Linux User Groups
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 Four years ago, Microsoft Corp. (MSFT ) could barely be bothered with Linux. At a trade show in 1998, then-President Steven A. Ballmer referred to Linux, the upstart computer operating system that rhymes with cynics, as "lie-nucks." When asked if he was sure of the pronunciation, Ballmer quipped: "There is no financial incentive to answering that question." Translation: Linux is just a pipsqueak that isn't worth our time.
 
The Linux Uprising PDF Print
Articles - Linux Items
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 Meet Nicholas Walker, digital nomad. Like blues musicians who once wandered the South singing for their supper, this 18-year-old high school dropout lives out of a suitcase--sometimes trading his software programming skills for a place to crash or some spending money. His travels have taken him far and wide, from a programmers' confab in Istanbul to Massachusetts Institute of Technology's famed Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
 
Virus Targets Linux or Windows PDF Print
Articles - Virus
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Hackers have released code for a virus that could threaten both Linux and Windows PCs.
Hackers have released a sample code for a virus that could infect both Linux and Windows PCs.
 
Linux Virus Protection PDF Print
Articles - Virus
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Linux Virus Protection, you say, isn't that redundant? Why Linux itself is virus protection. A malicious program that seeks to infect system files is going to have very little success when invoked by a non-root user.
 
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Today Linux is used in numerous domains, from embedded systems to supercomputers, and has secured a place in server installations with the popular LAMP application stack. Torvalds continues to direct the development of the kernel. Stallman heads the Free Software Foundation, which in turn develops the GNU components. Finally, individuals and corporations develop third-party non-GNU components.
 
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