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Linux creator Linus Torvalds says he has three anniversaries, not one, when it comes to marking the creation of the kernel that is now used all around the world.

German Linux company SUSE Linux is well known for its Linux and other open source solutions. It is also known for producing videos for geeks and debuting them at its annual SUSECon conference.

The Gentoo Linux distribution has announced that it will be no longer incorporating kernel hardening patches from the Grsecurity project and hence will stop providing its own hardened kernel source.

The founder of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman, will undertake a tour of Brazil and Argentina beginning later this month.

Richard Stallman, the head of the Free Software Foundation, was taken to hospital in Barcelona yesterday when he felt ill midway through a speech.

It's been a while since someone came along, arguing that the GNU General Public Licence isn't needed any more and clearly stating their motivation for doing so.

A recent study by a free software advocate has found that the use of the GNU General Public Licence family in the Debian GNU/Linux Project has been growing over the last seven years.

Bradley Kuhn is well-known in the world of Free Software. That he works for the Software Freedom Conservancy - and what that august organisation does - is less well publicised.

Despite being around for more than 20 years and being the licence most commonly used by free and open source software projects, the GNU General Public Licence is still viewed suspiciously by big and medium-sized businesses, a senior IT executive says.

One thing that can be said with certainty about Richard Matthew Stallman is that, at 57, nearly 27 years after he resolved to create a free computer operating system, he remains as stormy a petrel as ever.