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  • Solaris engineers offer personalised source-code tours

    Sun Microsystems chose to employ the human touch when it introduced more than five million lines of Solaris source code onto the Internet.

  • Open source advocate: Release Java code

    A day after Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy said open-source software is his company's friend, a prominent advocate of the collaborative programming philosophy has called upon the server maker to open the code of Java.

  • Sun opens Project Looking Glass

    In a move that reflects the growing power of the open-source programming movement, Sun Microsystems plans Monday to share an experimental user interface for desktop computers called Project Looking Glass.

  • Apache code has 'as many flaws' as proprietary

    Apache source code is of the same quality as proprietary counterparts, according to a study.

  • Court orders SCO to show more code

    A judge on Wednesday ordered both the SCO Group and IBM to reveal more information in their legal tangle over Linux and Unix, including the code SCO believes infringes on its intellectual property.

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  • Did SCO open Unix source code?

    Several organisations argue that SCO's shipment of a Linux product undermines its current attack on the operating system's intellectual-property underpinnings, but SCO says the argument is baseless.

  • Study: Early Apache code quality so-so

    The source code for a newer version of the Apache Web server software is of the same quality as proprietary competitors at a similar stage of development, a new study finds.

  • Intel demos dual core, uncorks Napa

    Intel on Wednesday took the wraps off a pair of upcoming chip technologies.

  • 64-bit Intel server onslaught begins

    Hewlett-Packard, Dell, IBM and others will announce on Monday in the US the first servers to use Intel Xeon processors augmented with 64-bit extensions, a technology with major long-term implications.

  • Microsoft to take direct shots at Linux rivals

    Microsoft is refining its "Get the Facts" Linux attack, taking specific aim at Red Hat, Novell and IBM rather than the broader movement around the open-source operating system.

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  • 'Tanglewood' to top Intel chip show

    Intel plans to describe a new high-end Itanium chip code-named Tanglewood at its Developer Forum conference this month, sources close to the company said. The chip will include as many as 16 processors on a single slice of silicon.

  • FAQ: Will your Intel-based Mac run Windows?

    Since Mac and Windows OSes now run on Intel-based hardware, shouldn't it be easy to run both on the same computer?

  • Microsoft chooses sides in DVD war

    Microsoft has decided to support one of two competing formats for popular DVD recording technology.

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