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Why Linux Is My IDE
It's telling that IDEs have thrived most on non-Linux or Unix platforms, particularly Windows. Windows has made less use of ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...