Vignoli says that 3.4.2 is the result of the "combined activity of 300 contributors having made more than 23,000 commits, with the addition, deletion or modification of around five million lines of code".

When patent troll Acacia sued Red Hat in 2007, it ended with a bang: Acacia’s patents were invalidated by the court, and all software developers, open-source or not, had one less legal risk to cope with. So, why is the outcome of Red Hat’s next tangle with Acacia being kept secret, and how is a Texas court helping to keep it that way?

All major free distro have now latest Firebird stable version (2.1.3) available in their official repositories.

Here is the list of where firebird 2.1.3 is included or can be installed

The good, the bad and the confusing of determining cpu properties on various nix systems

Did you ever notice that sometimes things are just slightly to the left of where they're supposed to be?

Raleigh, NC - September 4, 2008 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the acquisition of Qumranet, Inc.

An introduction to the sysctl command and its configuration file /etc/sysctl.conf

Part four of a five part post series on setting up Linux and Unix servers securely.