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Embedded Artists Offers Free Trial Access for Timesys LinuxLinkLinuxLink enables development teams to consistently build and maintain a custom, open source embedded Linux platform through regularly updated Linux sources, proven middleware packages, and a scriptable GNU-based build environment. In this article: Linux, Customer, Trademark, GNU, Linux kernel, and Linus Torvalds |
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Wired Top Stories | August 24, 2009
Aug. 25, 1991: Kid From Helsinki Foments Linux Revolution
...with its own license. But since several pieces of GNU software were required to run the Linux kernel, Torvalds eventually relented and published Linux version 0.99 under the GNU Public License in December 1992. The change made Linux fully...
In this article: Linus Torvalds, Unix, Linux Foundation, Linux kernel, Linux, University of Helsinki, Intel, Richard Stallman, and Helsinki
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ziffdavis | November 05, 2009
eWEEK at 25: Open Source Has Proven a Remarkably Fertile Platform
...not principally of hardware or software but of licensing. It was that year when Richard Stallman quit his job at MIT to start the GNU project, an effort to produce a clone of the Unix operating system to be distributed under a license...
In this article: Linux, Unix, AT&T, Richard Stallman, Cloud computing, MIT, and All rights reserved
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AnandTech Article Channel | August 25, 2009
Revisiting Linux Part 1: A Look at Ubuntu 8.04
...use. As Linux is just an operating system kernel, and more colloquially it is the combination of the Linux kernel and the GNU toolset (hence the less common name GNU/Linux), this leaves a wide variation of actual distributions out there. Each...
In this article: Linux, Ubuntu, Windows Firewall, Linux kernel, and Mac OS X
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Wikipedia | November 02, 2009
Linux distribution
...than in the desktop market. A typical desktop Linux distribution comprises a Linux kernel, GNU tools and libraries, additional software, documentation, a window system, window manager, and a desktop environment. Most of the included software...
In this article: Ubuntu, Unix, Red Hat, Derivative, Slackware, Fedora, DVD, and Linux kernel
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Outline of free software
...non-free software that society relied on. Examples of free software packages include GNU, the Linux kernel, Mozilla Firefox, and OpenOffice.org, and on network servers, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Apache . The following outline is provided as an...
In this article: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OpenOffice.org, Free software, Mozilla Firefox, and Linux kernel
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OSNews | October 07, 2009
Debian GNU/kFreeBSd Gets Release Status
Debian also has a number of ports using different kernels, such as Debian GNU/Hurd, Debian GNU/NetBSD, and Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. This last one has now been deemed stable enough to join the various Linux architecture ports in release status.
In this article: FreeBSD, Linux, Linux kernel, and MIPS
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Portal:Free software/Intro
...the proprietary software that society had come to rely upon. Examples of well-known free software packages include GNU, the Linux kernel, Mozilla Firefox, and OpenOffice, and, on network servers, FreeBSD, Samba , and the Apache web server .
In this article: FreeBSD, Open source software, OpenOffice, Free software, Apache web server, Mozilla Firefox, and Linux kernel
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Creative Commons » CC News | September 02, 2008
Happy birthday to GNU! - Creative Commons
...proprietary Apple's OS X comes directly from the GNU project. Often, software from the GNU project is paired with the Linux kernel to form the base of a free operating system. The software that runs the Internet, including the domain name...
In this article: Creative Commons, Richard Stallman, Domain Name System, Unix, Linux, Free software, Linux kernel, Apple, and Stephen Fry
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Portal:Linux/Selected article/3
...General Public License and other open source licenses. The primary form, Debian GNU/Linux, which uses the Linux kernel and GNU OS tools, is a popular and influential Linux distribution. It is distributed with access to repositories...
In this article: Linux, Ubuntu, Unix, Fedora, GNU General Public License, GNU OS, Debian GNU/Linux, Linux kernel, and Mandriva
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GNU (pronounced /gnuː/) is a computer operating system composed entirely of free software. Its name is a recursive acronym for GNU's Not Unix; it was chosen because its design is Unix-like, but differs from Unix by being free software and containing no Unix code. Development of GNU was initiated by Richard Stallman and was the original focus of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
GNU is developed by the GNU Project, and programs released under the auspices of the project are called GNU packages or GNU programs. The system's basic components include the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), the GNU Binary Utilities (binutils), the bash shell, the GNU C library (glibc), and GNU Core Utilities (coreutils).
GNU is in active development. Although nearly all components have been completed long ago and have been in production use for a decade or more, its official kernel, GNU Hurd, is incomplete and not all GNU components work with it. Thus, the third-party Linux kernel is most commonly used instead. While this kernel has not been officially adopted by the GNU project, some third-party software is included, such as the X.Org release of the X Window System and the TeX typesetting system. Many GNU programs have also been ported to numerous other operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, BSD variants, Solaris and Mac OS.
The GNU General Public License (GPL), the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) were written for GNU, but are also used by many unrelated projects.
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