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main : Howtos : HOWTO: Pick an open source license
Posted: ( Sat 1st Jul 2006 05:26:07[PM] UTC )
You've made the decision to release your code as "open source". Ok, what does that mean, what is an open source license, and how do you pick the right one?

main : Opinions : Should RISC OS be open sourced?
Posted: ( Sun 27th Nov 2005 01:40:32[AM] UTC )
The debate over whether or not RISC OS should be open sourced took another turn this week when Peter Naulls argued that "certain parts" of the OS could be released under an open source licence.

main : Articles : A Comparison of Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD Kernels
Posted: ( Sun 27th Nov 2005 01:37:22[AM] UTC )
I spend most of my time teaching classes on Solaris internals, device drivers, and kernel crash dump analysis and debugging. When explaining to classes how various subsystems are implemented in Solaris, students often ask, "How does it work in Linux?" or, "In FreeBSD, it works like this, how about Solaris?" This article examines three of the basic subsystems of the kernel and compares implementation between Solaris 10, Linux 2.6, and FreeBSD 5.3.

main : Opinions : The economics of commercial open source
Posted: ( Sun 20th Feb 2005 06:12:20[AM] UTC )
The goal of the series is to expose a trend in open source that is leading to the creation of a new breed of "effective" monopolies by commercial open source companies.

main : Articles : An open-source shot in the arm?
Posted: ( Mon 28th Jun 2004 04:20:24[PM] UTC )
Medicine: The open-source model is a good way to produce software, as the example of Linux shows. Could the same collaborative approach now revitalise medical research too?

main : Articles : An article about Jabber
Posted: ( Thu 23rd Jan 2003 06:43:12[AM] UTC )
The author of centericq, a popular instant messaging solution for *NIX, wrote an article about his first experience with Jabber as a developer.

main : Links : Bell Labs Unveils Plan 9 Operating System
Posted: ( Thu 8th Jun 2000 12:54:09[AM] UTC )
Bell Labs has made the third release of its Plan 9 computer operating system available on the World Wide Web under an open-source agreement.

main : Links : BeOS 5.0 is maturing nicely
Posted: ( Tue 2nd May 2000 02:41:24[PM] UTC )
Although it is fast and stable, with excellent multimedia capabilities, BeOS 5.0 still enjoys too little support from developers of applications and drivers to make it a viable replacement for Windows on mainstream desktops.

main : Links : QNX opens Neutrino RTOS source code
Posted: ( Mon 17th Apr 2000 08:39:47[PM] UTC )
In a bid to boost its profile in the emerging 'e-device' arena, real-time operating system supplier QNX is going open source - sort of.

main : Links : Hands on with Darwin 1.0
Posted: ( Sun 16th Apr 2000 04:27:51[PM] UTC )
The best thing that could happen to Mac OS X happened with the release of Darwin 1.0. Now that a (hopefully) large number of eyeballs will inspect the internals of the kernel, there is a very good chance that Mac OS X will be a solid offering early on.

main : Links : TrustedBSD Project
Posted: ( Sun 9th Apr 2000 04:54:24[PM] UTC )
TrustedBSD provides a set of trusted operating system extensions to the FreeBSD operating system, targetting the Orange Book B1 evaluation criteria.

main : Links : Apple releases Darwin 1.0 open source
Posted: ( Thu 6th Apr 2000 03:01:52[AM] UTC )
Apple announced the release of Darwin 1.0, the advanced operating system core at the heart of Mac OS X.

main : Links : Be reports half-million downloads of free OS
Posted: ( Thu 6th Apr 2000 03:01:18[AM] UTC )
Be announced that more than 550,000 copies of BeOS 5 have been downloaded since the free PC operating system became available a week ago.

main : Links : Eclipse: An operating system with Quality of Service (QOS) support
Posted: ( Wed 29th Mar 2000 05:54:02[PM] UTC )
Eclipse is an open source operating system developed by Bell Labs with Quality of Service Support. It is based on FreeBSD version 3.4.

main : Links : Apple open source OS to ship on Intel
Posted: ( Tue 28th Mar 2000 04:50:03[AM] UTC )
Apple looks set to release version 1.0 of its Darwin open source operating system core real soon now - and for the first time the code will be made available for Intel-based systems.