linux operating system

Tech News World: "In a move designed to protect the free and open source software (FOSS) community, the U.S.

Justice Department has intervened in an intellectual property case involving four dominant IT enterprises. The case could be a landmark in broadening the use of the Linux operating system and other open source software worldwide."

Michael Scott points us to an interesting blog post by law professor Tim Armstrong wondering if the DMCA is still controversial, noting that while many of the biggest fears associated with the DMCA when it was first passed did, in fact, come true, many of them were cut back by court decisions that limited the interpretations of the DMCA away from the most dangerous ones.

Debian.org: "The Debian Project, the team behind the free Debian GNU/Linux operating system, would like to invite you to participate in the upcoming Debian Conference which will take place from August 1 to 7, 2010, at New York City's Columbia University in cooperation with the Columbia Computer Science department"

Linux User and Developer: "The two fundamental concepts in a Linux operating system are processes and time slice.

A process is an instance of a program that is being executed by the computer’s operating system."

The H Open: "If the first era of free software was about the creation of the fully-rounded GNU/Linux operating system, the second saw a generation of key enterprise applications being written to run on that foundation."

Ghacks: "Is it really almost 2010? The first decade of 2k is nearly at an end, a decade that has been quite prosperous for the Linux operating system."

Prescott Linux: "The Linux operating system is being talked about more and more these days. The current financial crisis has had large corporations as well as governments rethinking what it costs to be online and just how much is being spent on computing technology."

Ghacks: "Even though the Linux operating system is very stable and rarely needs a reboot, there are times when an update (such as a kernel update) will make this a requirement.

At least that used to be the case."

Ghacks: "If you are one of those that depends upon a scanner for your daily work, and you want to handle this task using the Linux operating system, you are in luck."

eWeek: "The Debian Project, the team behind the free Debian GNU/Linux operating system, announces that its next annual conference, DebConf10, will be held Aug. 1 to 7, 2010."