Sasha Levin of NVIDIA proposed new guidelines (rules) for AI coding assistants like Claude and GitHub Copilot in Linux Kernel ...

ELF joins other SCO alleged copyright infringements of Unix including Read-Copy-Update (RCU), System V in Linux 2.6, user level synchronization routines, System V IPC code in Linux 2.2.20 and Unix ...

SCO says proprietary source code underlying Unix has been illegally copied into the Linux kernel. SCO critics argue that because the company shipped a Linux product under an open-source license ...

It compared source code from the Unix System V release 4.1 software that SGI has licensed from SCO with a version of the Linux kernel released this June, SGI said.

Microsoft's public disdain of Linux stretches back more than two years. In March 2001, Microsoft Senior Vice President Craig Mundie said releasing source code into the public domain is "unhealthy ...

SCO shocked the technology industry in March by suing IBM, claiming major portions of the Linux software the Armonk, N.Y., company distributes are based on Unix source code SCO controls.

Even if the code is the same between Linux and Unix, he said, there would be no way to know whether it was put there legally or who put it there. “How do they know it was IBM?” he asked.

This code change, which reportedly improves Linux networking efficiency and boosts throughput by up to 45% without increasing latency, is based on a research paper called “Kernel vs. User-Level ...

Most recently, Coverity scanned 7.6 million lines of code in Linux 3.8 and found a defect density of just .59. A copy of Coverity’s full report is available as a free download.