The reason being is that the patent infringement involves several versions of Linux all the back to kernel version 2.4.22 (circa 2003) through many of the recent 2.6 kernels. The larger picture here is how this will impact future development of...
Chrome OS will be open source, built on the Linux kernel and optimized for machines that run on x86 and ARM chips. The news media and blogosphere are abuzz this week over Google's Chrome OS -- often carrying the requisite "Windows Killer" designation.
For those of you living under a rock, the gist is that Google's coming out with an operating system, layered on top of a Linux kernel, that will power netbooks, and eventually desktop PCs. The new Google Chrome OS is the big news in the tech world...
In my position as kernel maintainer I feel that I should not be employed by a company which has a direct interest in the kernel.org kernel because this would put me in a position of making decisions which are commercially significant to my...
The operating system runs a "stripped-down Linux kernel" with patches bugs "that haven't been fixed in the original kernel. An InternetNews.com article named Peeking Into Google has Google's VP of operations and engineering giving us insight into...
