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  • Linux fervour on display at trade show

    The growing normalcy of Linux in corporate computing realm will be on display this week at a show devoted to the open-source operating system.

  • Torvalds: Linux 2.6 beta coming

    Although Linus Torvalds didn't meet a goal to release the upcoming version of the operating system in June, the Linux leader says a test version could come as soon as next week.

  • Open source shift spells an end for UnitedLinux

    UnitedLinux, a four-company consortium formed to counterbalance Red Hat's dominance in the Linux market, is all but dead.

  • Intel chips in on anti-SCO defence fund

    Intel has gotten involved in the legal battle between the SCO Group and Linux, contributing money to a defence fund geared to protect users of the open-source operating system.

  • SCO suit now seeks US$3 billion from IBM

    SCO Group has upped the ante in an amendment to its suit against IBM, seeking more than $3 billion in damages for alleged copying of proprietary Unix intellectual property into Linux.

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  • Torvalds: Linux 2.6 beta coming

    Although Linus Torvalds didn't meet a goal to release the upcoming version of the operating system in June, the Linux leader says a test version could come as soon as next week.

  • Linux to get mainstream server test

    A consortium devoted to improving Linux for high-end servers has developed a suite of tools designed to make widely used speed tests available to Linux programmers.

  • New Linux version expected in December

    The 2.6 version of the Linux core is expected in December and will be much more stable on arrival than its predecessor, according to the programmer in charge of the software.

  • Start-up launches Linux legal protection

    Open Source Risk Management plans on Monday in the US to begin selling Linux users protection against copyright infringement claims such as those levied by the SCO Group.

  • Torvalds wraps up work on Linux core

    Linus Torvalds has released the last update to the current Linux development kernel, and says he will now turn his attention to the next version of the operating system core.

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