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Linux Creator Linus Torvalds, Others Honored In Silicon Valley
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| The Computer History Museum on Tuesday night honored three legends in the
| industry, including Linux creator Linus Torvalds, whose operating system
| became the catalyst for the open source software movement that challenged
| traditional concepts of intellectual property.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/linux/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=211300484&subSection=News
Linux's Next Victim
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| UNIX is a ship very slowly letting in water. The rats aren't about to abandon
| it quite yet, but they are certainly checking where the life vests are
| stored.
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| The cause of the leak is Linux. UNIX may account for about a third of the
| server market, but its upstart cousin is slowly but surely eating in to that
| share. It's not that there's anything wrong with UNIX — far from it. It's
| just that Linux is becoming increasingly capable of doing the less-demanding
| tasks that UNIX has historically been asked to do.
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http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3779821
Recent:
Ballmer Still Searching for an Answer to Google
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| "Forty percent of servers run Windows, 60 percent run Linux," he said. "How
| are we doing? Forty is less than 60, so I don't like it. ... We have some
| work to do."
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/151568/ballmer_still_searching_for_an_answer_to_google.html
Red Hat Linux trumps Unix on TPC price/performance test
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| In a recent independent test, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 Advanced
| Platform trumped all other operating systems that process more than 1 million
| transactions per minute -- and at 22% lower cost than its next closest
| competitor.
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http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_gci1332534,00.html
Isn't Linux just UNIX under a different name?
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| Yet, the bottom line is Linux is not UNIX. Make no mistake. Linux was not
| derived from the original program code and it is not subject to any UNIX
| licensing arrangement (some may say constraint.) In fact, Linux is not
| legally able to call itself UNIX (and incidentally, neither is BSD anymore.)
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| No, despite the affection long-timers in the industry might have for UNIX
| there’s no denying Linux has taken on a life of its own and is driving modern
| development faster than any proprietary team. In a twist of fate, Linux poses
| a challenge to the mighty Microsoft whose server-based operating systems led
| pundits to question the viability of UNIX just two decades ago.
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| Linux ain’t UNIX. And in fact Linux has left UNIX behind. The UNIX name has
| become bogged down with fragmented development and legal battles making it a
| shell of its former self. Linux is the new UNIX, it alone is the embodiment
| of the elegant design and hacker spirit that UNIX originally represented.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20169/1143/
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