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Alan Cox (born 1968) is a programmer heavily involved in the development of the Linux kernel since its early days (1991). Whilst employed on the campus of University of Wales, Swansea, he installed a very early version of Linux on one of the machines belonging to the university computer society. This was one of the first Linux installations on a busy network, and revealed many bugs in the networking code. Cox fixed many of these bugs, and went on to rewrite much of the networking subsystem. He then became one of the main developers and maintainers of the whole kernel. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alan Cox"

Andrew Morton is a Linux kernel developer. He maintains a patchset known as the mm tree, which contains not yet sufficiently tested patches that might later be accepted into the official 2.6 kernel maintained by Linus Torvalds. ...more on Wikipedia about "Andrew Morton (computer programmer)"

Ari Lemmke (born December 12, 1963) is the person who gave Linux its name. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ari Lemmke"

Beowulf is a design for high-performance parallel computing clusters on inexpensive personal computer hardware. Originally developed by Donald Becker at NASA, Beowulf systems are now deployed worldwide, chiefly in support of scientific computing. ...more on Wikipedia about "Beowulf (computing)"

BlackDog is a mobile personal server which ostensibly allows the user to run the open source Linux operating system on any computer. The device is proprietary technology developed by Realm Systems, Inc. ...more on Wikipedia about "BlackDog"

Blackdown Java is a port of Sun's Java virtual machine to Linux by a group of volunteers. It predates Sun's official Linux port. It still supports platforms the official version does not, including SPARC and PowerPC. Currently, Blackdown Java supports up to version 1.4.2 of the Java run-time libraries. Despite widespread confusion, Blackdown is neither Free Software nor Open Source. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blackdown Java"

BogoMips (from " bogus" and MIPS) are an unscientific measurement of CPU speed made by the Linux kernel when it boots, to calibrate an internal busy-loop. An oft-quoted definition of the term is "the number of million times per second a processor can do absolutely nothing". ...more on Wikipedia about "BogoMips"

Carrier Grade Linux is a set of specifications which detail standards of availability, scalability, manageability, and service response characteristics which must be met in order for Linux to be considered " carrier-grade" (i.e. ready for use within the telecommunications industry). The term is particularly applicable as telecom converges technically with data networks and commercial off-the-shelf commoditized components such as blade servers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carrier Grade Linux"

Curses-based software is software whose user interface is implemented through the Curses library, or a compatible library (such as Ncurses). ...more on Wikipedia about "Curses based"

The Desktop Linux Consortium (DLC) is a non-profit organization which aims at enhancing and promoting the use of the Linux operating system on the desktop. ...more on Wikipedia about "Desktop Linux Consortium"

Embedded Linux refers to the use of the Linux operating system in embedded systems such as cell phones, PDAs, media player handsets, and other consumer electronics devices. ...more on Wikipedia about "Embedded Linux"

EmperorLinux, Inc. ** , was founded in 1999 on the premise that Linux users needed a source for fully out-of-the-box supported laptops. EmperorLinux was started by Lincoln Durey, a EE Ph.D. from Tulane University. The company's first product was the BlackPerl Linux laptop, based on a Sony VAIO 505TR with a highly modified Linux kernel. Since 1999 the company has added a range of IBM ThinkPads, Dell Latitudes, and Sharp laptops to its lineup. ...more on Wikipedia about "EmperorLinux"

EuroLinux is a campaigning organisation that promotes open source software / free software in Europe, and that are opposed to the European Union's proposals to introduce laws on software patents. It is also known as EuroLinux Alliance. ...more on Wikipedia about "EuroLinux"

Exec Shield is a security patch for the Linux kernel that adds an NX bit to x86 CPUs. It was developed by Ingo Molnar of Red Hat, and is used as a part of Fedora Core 1, 2, 3 and 4. ...more on Wikipedia about "Exec Shield"

Free 60 is the successor to the XBox Linux Project that aims to put Linux or Darwin on the new XBox 360 using a software or hardware based "Hack". ...more on Wikipedia about "Free 60"

A futex (short for "fast userspace mutex") is a basic tool to realize locking and building higher-level locking abstractions such as semaphores and POSIX mutexes on Linux. They first appeared in the development kernel version 2.5.7; the semantics stabilized as of version 2.5.40, and they are present in the 2.6.x stable kernel series. ...more on Wikipedia about "Futex"

GNU/Linux is the term promoted by the Free Software Foundation (FSF), its founder Richard Stallman, and its supporters, for operating systems composed of the FSF's GNU software and the Linux kernel; such systems are commonly called " Linux". ...more on Wikipedia about "GNU/Linux naming controversy"

Grokdoc is a MediaWiki based wiki for Linux usability, maintained by the Groklaw operators. ...more on Wikipedia about "Grokdoc"

Harald Welte (born in 1979) is a German Linux hacker, known for his kernel-level work and his activities in enforcing the GNU General Public License. ...more on Wikipedia about "Harald Welte"

Indlinux is a project, that attempts to localise tools used under Linux and other free software environments into all Indian languages. Indlinux is a combination of the words India and Linux. ...more on Wikipedia about "IndLinux"

initrd stands for "initial ramdisk" and is used by Linux and other Unix-related operating systems in their boot procedure. ...more on Wikipedia about "Initrd"

The term Lintel is used to describe a computing platform consisting of the Linux operating system running on CPUs which are compatible with the x86 instruction set defined by Intel for their microprocessors. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lintel (Linux)"

Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of Linux. He now acts as the project's coordinator (or Benevolent Dictator for Life). ...more on Wikipedia about "Linus Torvalds"

Linux is a computer operating system and its kernel. It is one of the most prominent examples of free software and of open-source development: unlike proprietary operating systems such as Windows and Mac OS, all of its underlying source code is available to the public and anyone can freely use, modify, improve, and redistribute it. ...more on Wikipedia about "Linux"

The Linux kernel includes true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking. ...more on Wikipedia about "Linux architecture"

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