"Every time I see the Linux and open/free source supporters getting all huffed up about Microsoft's ongoing FUD war against Linux, I have to laugh. Not because it's just so much silliness from Microsoft (which it is), but because it doesn't even scratch the surface of what they're capable of and routinely do."

"Problems generally arise because developers make certain assumptions about the system and the person doing the compiling. In some cases the assumptions are simply wrong, but more to the point they are often hacker-centric."

This is an entirely different way to handle access permissions, compared to the user/privilege model most UNIX systems currently use. SEL could implement that model along with a granularity that could modify user privileges based on the specifics of what is being executed and what files are being used. Pretty powerful stuff.

"On one hand, it's nice to know that Linux and open source have grown so much and moved so firmly into the mainstream of computing that mighty Microsoft is scared. But on the other hand, it's troubling to be in a great intellectual debate -– perhaps the most fundamental in the history of computing -– and have to face such specious and unfounded arguments and accusations."

"Debian is not a cure for DUH. But it almost completely eliminates the consequences -- the cost and difficulty of upgrading -- at least as far as operating systems go, although you could make the case that it even soothes the upgrade woes of most Linux software from Apache to Netscape."

"Free software is developed worldwide in a collaborative effort, and outlawing it in one single country will have no long term effect upon the international software market. Microsoft doesn't only operate in the United States, and would still have to compete in every other market with free software."

"As an average programmer, I'm skilled enough to make necessary modifications to the kernel, but an average desktop user surely won't cope with it; he has problems even with compiling downloaded kernel source. Not very happy with the situation, I decided to write this article and share some ideas on how things should be done to improve device drivers for various hardware devices under Linux."

"If, for example, the CIA wants to hack the Linux kernel to do some super secret stuff, they don't have to publish the source code they add to the kernel as long as they don't publish the binaries. It's that simple. And no, the resulting code doesn't automatically become GPLed. Why? Because they didn't release or publish it to anyone. It's internal, and they're not required to do so."

"Like the other distributions, PocketLinux for the iPAQ uses the handhelds.org kernel and builds a GUI platform on top of it. But PocketLinux, provided by Transvirtual Technologies, is in a sense more ambitious than the others, in that it is targeted toward development by both programmers and non-programmers."

"One of the things I like about Linux is its flexibility -- you can use Linux on your desktop workstation, on a high-volume Web server, as a firewall or router, as a back-end database server, etc."