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Linus Torvalds is the star guest at Australia's annual Linux conference. ZDNet.com.au once again took a video crew to Melbourne in January and caught up with the man behind Linux.
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Linus Torvalds is the star guest at Australia's annual Linux conference. ZDNet.com.au once again took a video crew to Melbourne in January and caught up with the man behind Linux.
Linux leader Linus Torvalds is moving development of the upcoming 2.6 kernel to a new phase.
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The infrastructure and tools required to make Linux a green operating system are now in place, according to Linus Torvalds, who was in Melbourne attending Linux.conf.au -- Australia's largest Linux conference.
The next version of the heart of the Linux operating system is expected by June, according to project founder Linus Torvalds.
Intel is working on Linux support for Centrino, its package of chips for mobile computers with wireless networking abilities, but the company hasn't yet decided how or when to release it.
Updated code for the heart of current Linux products was released Friday, in the first major revamp to the kernel since November.
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