Linux support for AGP enhanced fast data transfers was first added in 1999 with the implementation of the AGPgart kernel module.

He is also credited with the first port of the GNU C compiler to the INTEL 386 architecture, used in the original implementation of the Linux kernel.

EFI booting has been supported in only Microsoft Windows versions supporting GPT, the Linux kernel 2. 6. 1 and later, and Mac OS X on Intel-based Macs.

Conectiva's development team had expertise in, amongst others, the following areas: Linux kernel development, high availability, device drivers, XFree86, network protocols, firewalling, clustering, performance analysis and optimisation, filesystems and resource management.

In 2008, after a chance meeting with CPAN admin Adam Kennedy at the Open Source Developers Conference, Linux kernel developer Rusty Russell created the CCAN, the Comprehensive C Archive Network.

Cooperative Linux ( in short coLinux ) runs a full, but modified Linux kernel like a driver under Windows, effectively making Windows and Linux two coroutines, using cooperative multitasking to switch between them.

Debian GNU / Linux, which includes the GNU OS tools and Linux kernel, is a popular and influential Linux distribution.

The current stable release includes over 29, 000 software packages for 11 different computer architectures using the Linux kernel.

Operating systems that supported Alpha included OpenVMS ( previously known as OpenVMS AXP ), Tru64 UNIX ( previously known as DEC OSF / 1 AXP and Digital UNIX ), Windows NT ( until 4. 0 SP6 and Windows 2000 RC1 ), GNU / Linux ( Debian GNU / Linux, Gentoo Linux and Red Hat Linux ), BSD UNIX ( NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD up to 6. x ), as well as the L4Ka :: Pistachio kernel.

In Linux environments, programmers can build device drivers either as parts of the kernel or separately as loadable modules.

He wrote CML2, a source code configuration system ; while originally intended for the Linux kernel, it was rejected by kernel developers.

In the GNU / Linux naming controversy the FSF argues for the term GNU / Linux because GNU was a longstanding project to develop a free operating system, of which they say the kernel was the last missing piece.

Other software, like Mac OS X 10. 6 and some components of the Linux kernel < ref >

The same mode is also used by KGDB for debugging a running Linux kernel on the source level with gdb.

With the release of the Linux kernel in 1991, the primary user of GNU's userland components soon became operating systems based on the Linux kernel ( Linux distributions ), prompting the coining of the controversial term GNU / Linux.

AIX was a component of the 2003 SCO v. IBM lawsuit, in which the SCO Group filed a lawsuit against IBM, alleging IBM contributed SCO's intellectual property to the Linux codebase.

BeOS was positioned as a multimedia platform which could be used by a substantial population of desktop users and a competitor to Mac OS and Microsoft Windows ( Linux was not relevant as a desktop OS at the time ).

Until about 2000, users of Unix desktops regarded CDE as the de facto standard, but at that time, other desktop environments such as GNOME and K Desktop Environment 2 were quickly becoming mature, and became almost universal on the Linux platform, which already had a larger user base than most commercial Unixes in total.

Red Hat is the only Linux distribution to which CDE has been ported, although it has since been phased out in favour of GNOME.

Until that day, the package was distributed as license-free software, which prevented the distribution of modified versions of djbdns which was in conflict with the principles of Open source software which made the inclusion in many Linux distributions infeasible if not impossible.

Both Xilinx and Altera provide free Windows and Linux design software which provides limited set of devices.

In 2001, computer giant IBM launched an advertising campaign in Chicago and San Francisco which involved people spray painting on sidewalks a peace symbol, a heart, and a penguin ( Linux mascot ), to represent " Peace, Love, and Linux.

In November 2002 OSNews conducted a poll to determine the most popular Gecko-based browser, which included several browsers for Microsoft Windows, MacOS and Linux, but didn't include Netscape Navigator and Mozilla Suite.

On joining Sun, he led Project Indiana, which he described as " taking the lesson that Linux has brought to the operating system and providing that for Solaris ", making a full OpenSolaris distribution with GNOME and userland tools from GNU plus a network-based package management system.

The primary operating systems in use on current IBM mainframes include z / OS ( which followed MVS and OS / 390 ), z / VM ( previously VM / CMS ), z / VSE ( which is in the DOS / 360 lineage ), z / TPF ( a successor of Airlines Control Program ), and Linux on System z such as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and others.

There are software-based emulators for the System / 370, System / 390, and System z hardware, including FLEX-ES and the freely available Hercules emulator which runs under Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.

# ICQ for Mac ( Beta )— Released in February 2010, a version of the client that was developed using the Adobe AIR platform, making it usable on additional operating systems which support the AIR runtime, such as Linux.

Since Id Software and some of its licencees released the source code for some of their previous games, several games which were not ported ( such as Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny, Heretic, Hexen, Hexen II, and Strife ) can run on Linux and other operating systems through the use of source ports.

* < tt > oksh </ tt > — a fork of OpenBSD ′ s flavour of KornShell, which supports GNU / Linux only ; it is used as the default shell in DeLi Linux ;

Additionally there are Power PC ports for Mac OS and Linux.

" However Carmack revealed that " there are no plans for a native Linux client " of id's most recent game, Rage.

Additionally, there is software for Windows, Pocket PC, Linux, and Macintosh PCs that can decode and display karaoke song tracks, though usually these must be ripped from the CD first, and possibly compressed.

In 1996, there was a port of Quake to Linux by an id software employee working in his free time.

Due to the ubiquity of support for X software on Unix, Linux and Mac OS X, X is commonly used to run client applications on personal computers even when there is no need for time-sharing.

The module vendor will usually provide boot software and make sure there is a selection of operating systems, usually including Linux and some real time choices.

For distributions based on. deb and. rpm files as well as Slackware Linux, there is CheckInstall, and for recipe-based systems such as Gentoo Linux and hybrid systems such as Arch Linux, it is possible to write a recipe first, which then ensures that the package fits into the local package database.

Furthermore, there are Linux versions that will run on a Dreamcast and later game consoles as well.

* The Linux kernel has included trusted computing support since version 2. 6. 13, and there are several projects to implement trusted computing for Linux.

Currently there are a number of Linux distributions, and at least one BSD, that are designed for building Beowulf clusters.

Some " generic " GDI drivers have been written which make some GDI printers compatible with non-Microsoft operating systems such as Linux, but there is no guarantee that any particular GDI printer will be supported.

In the Linux kernel, there have historically been two uniform sound APIs used.

ALSA is available for Linux only, and as there is only one implementation of the ALSA interface, ALSA refers equally to that implementation and to the interface itself.

Similarly, there was an ALSA emulation mode in the Linux implementation of OSS.

Subsequent " clean room " reverse engineering, published in 2004, clarifies some details of the native VLIW architecture and associated instruction set, and suggests that there are fundamental limitations that preclude porting an operating system such as Linux to it.

In addition to this, there are several Linux distributions that will also operate on some of these devices.

While Apple Macintosh is used for studio work, there is a breadth of software available for Microsoft Windows and Linux.

The SCO Group asserted that there are legal uncertainties regarding the use of the Linux operating system due to alleged violations of IBM's Unix licenses in the development of Linux code at IBM.

After the ruling Novell announced they have no interest in suing people over Unix and stated " We don't believe there is Unix in Linux ".

Linux includes a UFS implementation for binary compatibility at the read level with other Unixes, but since there is no standard implementation for the vendor extensions to UFS, Linux does not have full support for writing to UFS.