Torvalds owns the " Linux " trademark and monitors the use of it, chiefly through the Linux Mark Institute.

Since Lindows created a Linux based operating system designed to compete with Microsoft's Windows operating system, Microsoft filed trademark related lawsuits in the United States and abroad.

The very same day it received our notice of the magazine's departure, SSC, Inc. suddenly filed a US $ 300 fee and trademark application # 78319880 with the USA Patent and Trademark Office ( USPTO ), requesting registration of the name " Linux Gazette " as a service mark.

GNU / Linux was written from scratch to avoid copyright issues, and its derivatives are not compatible enough to qualify for the Unix trademark.

The Linux Mark Institute ( LMI ) is an organization which administers the " Linux " trademark on behalf of Linus Torvalds for computer software which includes the Linux kernel, computer hardware utilizing Linux-based software, and for services associated with the implementation and documentation of Linux-based products.

The assignment of the trademark to Torvalds occurred after attorney William R. Della Croce, Jr. began in 1996 to send royalty demand letters to various Linux distributors, claiming to own the Linux trademark for which he filed in August 1994.

While Red Hat uses strict trademark rules to restrict free re-distribution of their officially supported versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat freely provides the source code for the distribution's software even for software where this is not mandatory.

The foremost of these is the Linux Foundation which hosts and sponsors the key kernel developers, manages the Linux trademark, manages the Open Source Developer Travel Fund, provides legal aid to open source developers and companies through the Linux Legal Defense Fund, sponsors kernel. org and also hosts the Patent Commons Project.

Since Java's bytecode is platform-independent, Java applets can be executed by browsers running under many platforms, including Windows, Unix, Mac OS, and Linux.

It is also possible to ignore the 68k CPU and run Linux on the PPC ( project Linux APUS ), but a PowerPC native AmigaOS promised by Amiga Technologies GmbH was not available when the PowerUP boards first appeared.

It is currently supported on IBM Power Systems alongside IBM i and Linux.

** LVM ( Logical Volume Manager ) was incorporated into OSF / 1, and in 1995 for HP-UX, and the Linux LVM implementation is similar to the HP-UX LVM implementation.

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.

Another implementation is possible with Linux and ebtables.

Software quality is very important, especially for commercial and system software like Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows and Linux.

It is available on Linux and BSD for Intel x86 ; Linux for Alpha ; Mac OS X for Intel x86 and PowerPC ; and Solaris, IRIX, and HP-UX on their native platforms.

Joy2chord is a Chorded Keyboard driver for Linux computers.

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

As a result, Cygwin's fork is rather slow compared with Linux and others.

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

Thus, the Debian Project is an independent decentralized organization ; it is not backed by a company like Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, and Mandriva.

Debian was one of the earlier Linux distributions to compose itself from packages, and robust package management is perhaps Debian's most prominent feature.

It is a cross-platform project that allows the game to be played on BeOS, FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Windows rather than DOS.

OpenEuphoria is currently available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, OS X and three flavors of * BSD.

ed can be found on virtually every version of Unix and Linux available, and as such is useful for people who have to work with multiple versions of Unix.

The clone is available for download as part of the FreeDOS project, and runs on operating systems such as Linux or Unix as well as MS-DOS.

Paradoxically as it seems, it is the symbiosis of their works that make up a complete operating system known as GNU / Linux, or just Linux.

Linus Torvalds has attributed his eventually inventing and developing the Linux kernel in part to his having owned a Sinclair QL in the 1980s.

On Linux, this can be achieved by using the ulimit utility ; for example, the command would limit the affected user to a maximum of thirty owned processes.

It is a joint development between Linux vendors Red Flag Software of China, Miracle Linux of Japan ( 50. 5-percent owned by Oracle Corporation ), Haansoft of South Korea, VietSoftware of Vietnam ( from September 2007 ), WTEC from Thailand ( from December 2008 ) and Enterprise Technology ( Pvt ) Limited of Sri Lanka ( from July 2010 ).

Under the Borland name and a new management team headed by President and CEO Dale L. Fuller, a now-smaller and profitable Borland refocused on Delphi, and created a version of Delphi and C ++ Builder for Linux, both under the name Kylix.

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 ).

Conectiva was a company founded on August 28, 1995, in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, by a group of friends, among them Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, who was a pioneer in the distribution of Linux and open source software in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and English for all of Latin America.

Such fixes can be installed by Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, or the motherboard BIOS.

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

Exile III was also ported to Linux by a third party.

* Economies of Scale Definition by The Linux Information Project ( LINFO )

It was useful enough to be picked up by popular Linux distributions, e. g. Debian.

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

The equivalent of VFS of Linux is achieved by libdiskfs and libpager libraries.

( For example, " Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, is considered by some to be a hacker.

Since Java's bytecode is cross-platform or platform independent, Java applets can be executed by browsers for many platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Unix, Mac OS and Linux.

Heretic II was later ported to Linux by Loki Software and to the Amiga by Hyperion Entertainment.

Linux by default converts uppercase letters to lower case while mounting ISO filesystems.

The tradition of porting to Linux was first started by Dave D. Taylor with David Kirsch doing some later porting.

Since Quake III Arena Linux porting has been handled by Timothee Besset.

The majority of all Id Tech 4 games, including those made by other developers, have a Linux client available, the only current exceptions being Wolfenstein and Brink.

Similarly, almost all of the games utilizing the Id tech 2 engine have Linux ports, the only exceptions being those created by Ion Storm.

Despite fears by the Linux gaming community that Id Tech 5 would not be ported to that platform, Timothee Besset in his blog has stated " I'll be damned if we don't find the time to get Linux builds done ".