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 ...

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.

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

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.

Among a bevy of Microsoft stories this week, the company is contributing code for inclusion in Linux, thanks to a Novell fellow. Also: Amazon buys Zappos and PayPal gets a new API.

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.

In the context of Filho's request that Linux's file system implement Rust bindings, Ts'o says that while he knows he must fix all the C code for any change he makes, he cannot or will not fix the ...