Linux

Microsoft gets Casio to sign Linux patent protection deal

Casio agrees to pay Microsoft an undisclosed sum for a deal that includes Microsoft's vow not to sue Casio's customers for using its Linux devices

Windows Server 8: The Microsoft Server Fork

There's an argument to say that Windows Server is now Microsoft Server with Optional Windows. If it's what Microsoft has described, it's a hard left turn for Microsoft

Want to Build Your Community? Take Notes from the Django Project.

Use this checklist if you want to make sure a community doesn't form around your project. (Or take tips from Django to build and keep an enthusiastic community.)

The Game of Clue, Linux Edition: Who Hacked Linux.Com:

The identities and motives of some of leading and not so leading suspects

What’s New in PostgreSQL 9.1?

User-requested features shaped the latest PostgreSQL release.

Security rundown for the week ending Sept. 2

Linux kernel break-in, virtualization protection, copper theft security and Mac OS X breaks dominate security news

Hackers break into Linux source code site

But Linux geeks say that the kernel source code is secure

Linux Foundation chief talks about Torvalds’ leadership, HTML5 and mobile’s future

Jim Zemlin says Linux's desktop failure doesn't matter, MeeGo lives and HTML5 is the future

Linux Foundation chief: ‘You are an idiot’ if you don’t give back to open source

Taking without contributing back to the upstream project defeats the benefit of open source and sooner or later, all open source users realize this, contends Jim Zemlin

Linux at 20: New challenges, new opportunities