Microsoft Hires Gentoo Linux Founder, Jun 14, 2005

The founder and former chief architect of Gentoo Linux, a so-called meta-distribution of Linux known for its adaptability, has joined the ranks at Redmond.

IBM Corp. hopes to do for its Power processor what it helped do for Linux: create a bigger market in which lots of vendors can play, and earn more money for IBM in the process

"This release is a bit different from the usual ones, for obvious reason," Torvalds wrote. "It's the first in a _long_ time that I've done without using BK, and it's the first one ever that has been built up completely with 'git'."

Linux is very easy to use, and the idea that the open-source operating system is a command-line driven environment is a misconception.

Last week's 3.1 release makes this a great time to give Debian GNU/Linux a whirl. Debian's popularity has inspired dozens of variants, including many that circumvent your hard disk and run directly from a combination of CD-ROM and computer memory. Here's a look at some of the celebrities in the Debian family tree.

Plumtree Software Inc. is preparing to release its first vertical applications for the retail and pharmaceutical industries while porting its portal, content management and application development platform to Linux.

The development team that will focus on Linux's desktop operating system (OS), a key component of the joint efforts by the Chinese, Japanese and South Korean governments to promote Linux development in Asia, is in place.

I recently asked Linus Torvalds for his thoughts on the relative strengths and weaknesses of Linux and BSD, and about how much synergy there might be between the Linux kernel and the BSDs.

Red Hat has released Fedora Core 4, a free version of Linux the company is using to advance virtualization, programming tools and other software at the frontier of open-source development.

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