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microsoft.com - 7/20/2009

Microsoft Contributes Linux Drivers to Linux Community: Roundtable Q&A: Sam Ramji, senior ...

— microsoft.com — REDMOND, Wash., July 20, 2009 — Today, in a break from the ordinary, Microsoft released 20,000 lines... of device driver code to the Linux community. The code, which includes three Linux device drivers, has been submitted to the Linux kernel community ... (more) Microsoft Contributes Linux Drivers to Linux Community: ...

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techflash.com - 7/20/2009

Apple's former real estate chief now working on Microsoft stores - TechFlash: Seattle's ...

— techflash.com — Looks like Microsoft will have some very well-informed assistance as it tries to replicate the success of... Apple's retail stores. Former Apple real estate chief George Blankenship, who helped lead the early rollout of the Mac maker's retail stores, is ... (more) Apple's former real estate chief now working on ...

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theregister.co.uk - 7/19/2009

Clever attack exploits fully-patched Linux kernel • The Register

— theregister.co.uk — A recently published attack exploiting newer versions of the Linux kernel is getting plenty of notice because... it works even when security enhancements are running and the bug is virtually impossible to detect in source code reviews. The exploit code ... (more) Clever attack exploits fully-patched Linux kernel • The ...

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Microsoft's Linux code release: Not all fear and loathing in Linux land
All about Microsoft — ... for a while now. Some elements of LIC were available under the GPL license, but some pieces weren’t. As of July 20, all pieces of LIC are now under GPL. (By the way, Microsoft’s LIC code talks to Hyper-V and runs on top of it. So while the LIC is under the GPL, Hyper-V isn’t and is “protected” from it.) Greg Kroah-Hartman, a Novell fellow with SuSE Labs and Linux Driver Project lead approached Microsoft about submitting the code several months ago , after he was pointed to the drivers by a Linux community member. (Kroah-Hartman said he had no involvement with the ...

Microsoft's Linux driver offering planned for years
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — ... that would let Windows Server administrators run SLES as a virtualized guest on Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2. They also announced that they were working on getting SLES to run as an 'enlightened guest' on Server 2008. All of this has since come to pass. In short, there was really nothing at all surprising about this announcement. It's been in the works for over two years. With that in mind, I find it a little disingenuous for Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux driver project lead and a Novell fellow , to tell John Fontana of Network World that "Another kernel community ...