Novell said Thursday that new versions of Suse Linux Enterprise will use ext3 as the default file system, important foundational software that manages how data is stored on hard drives. The change demotes the current default, ReiserFS, to a secondary, though still supported, option. ReiserFS has been under the control of Hans Reiser, a programmer [...]
Archive for January, 2007
Last week, Armijn Hemel, an open source enthusiast and consultant with Loohuis Consulting, revealed that he’d reverse engineered Cisco’s iPhone WIP300 and found that Cisco hasn’t properly shared code used in the phone. The phone runs Linux and Cisco licensed the operating system under the GNU General Public License (GPL), requiring it to share the [...]
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