Kernel coding no picnic, says Torvalds
Linux project lead Linus Torvalds has said it is not easy to become a major contributor to the Linux kernel.
Linux project lead Linus Torvalds has said it is not easy to become a major contributor to the Linux kernel.
Paris-based OW2 Consortium, whose members include Alcatel Lucent, France Telecom, Red Hat and Thales, will merge with California-based Open Solutions Alliance.
Microsoft and Novell have extended their interoperability agreement for server operating systems.
Brazil is to appeal the International Organisation for Standardisation decision to ratify Microsoft Office Open XML, now known as ISO/IEC DIS 29500.
A project funded by the US Department of Homeland Security has praised improvements in open source security, while outlining some common errors.
Critics have taken aim at a study published by the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team that said more vulnerabilities were found in Linux/Unix than in Windows last year.The report, Cyber Security Bulletin 2005, was released last week.
/**/ The US government has reported that fewer vulnerabilities were found in Windows than in Linux/Unix operating systems in 2005. Linux/Unix-based operating systems -- a set that includes Mac OS X, as well as the various Linux distributions and flavours of Unix -- had more than twice as many vulnerabilities as Windows, according to the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), which is part of the US Department of Homeland Security.
Software giant Microsoft has said it rejected plans to develop a dual-boot iteration of Windows XP to run on One Laptop per Child XO machines, and instead is developing a version of XP specifically for the XO.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in many iterations and distributions of Linux.
Open source software project Samba has signed an agreement with Microsoft to receive protocol documentation for the software giant's Windows workgroup server products.