Linux Foundation to begin third annual desktop Linux survey
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| This survey has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian,
| French and Spanish in order to allow the broadest possible participation.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS5172132120.html
Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin on the Virtues of Open Source
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| Q: How's Linus Torvalds doing?
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| A: He is one of the lowest-maintenance employees I have ever encountered. At
| the foundation, our policy with Linus is just make sure that we pay him every
| two weeks and enable him to do the great stuff that he's already doing.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59847.html
Kernel space: Linux gets CAN support
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| There have been CAN implementations on Linux before, though none have made
| their way into the mainline. Most of them, however, have taken the easy way
| out: make a CAN controller look more-or-less like a serial port and implement
| the protocols at the application level.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/101607-kernel.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
Related:
Making Linux Drivers Free To Companies
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| Remember Greg Kroah-Hartman's comments earlier this year about offering up
| free Linux driver development for all companies willing to provide hardware
| specifications to the developers? Novell has realized the potential of this
| open-source work and is now allowing Greg Kroah-Hartman to work full time on
| developing free software drivers that are free of charge to companies that
| are interested.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjA3Nw
Kernel Comparison for Linux (2.6.18) verses Windows (2003 R2)
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| Architectures: Linux Windows
| PC x86 Y Y
| PC AMD64 Y Y
| PC IA-64 Y Y
| Alpha Y N
| PPC Y N
| PPC64 Y N
| SPARC32 Y N
| SPARC64 Y N
| ARM Y N
| HP PA-RISC Y N
| Moto 680x0 Y N
| MIPS Y N
| MIPS (DEC) Y N
| PowerPC Y N
| IBM S/390 Y N
| others Y N
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http://widefox.pbwiki.com/Kernel%20Comparison%20Linux%20vs%20Windows
Is There Perfection in The Linux Kernel?
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| In a perfect world, you could compile a brand-new Linux kernel
| without the need for much configuration and without error.
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| According to Linus Torvalds, the new 2.6.19 Linux kernel is such
| an entity.
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| "It's one of those rare "perfect" kernels," Torvalds wrote in a
| Linux kernel mailing list posting announcing the new kernel.
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http://www.internetnews.com/article.php/3646456
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