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OSRM Declares Linux Free of Copyright Violations

Posted by timothy on from the but-they-don't-get-to-end-the-whole-circus dept.

tmu writes "According to a recent press release, the Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels are free of any code that violate copyrights. OSRM, the new startup formed by Daniel Egger and including groklaw founder Pamela Jones, completed a 6-month review of all code in both kernels. They must be pretty confident of the results, because they're offering product liability insurance to both developers and users."

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  1. Re:Linux needs to get its act together by sloanster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    User: "How do I get Quake 3 to run in Linux?"
    Zealot: "Oh that's easy! If you have Redhat, you have to download quake_3_rh_8_i686_010203_glibc.bin, then do chmod +x on the file. Then you have to su to root, make sure you type export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 but ONLY if you have that latest libc6 installed. If you don't, don't set that environment variable or the installer will dump core. Before you run the installer, make sure you have the GL drivers for X installed. Get them at [some obscure web address], chmod +x the binary, then run it, but make sure you have at least 10MB free in /tmp or the installer will dump core. After the installer is done, edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and add a section called "GL" and put "driver nv" in it. Make sure you have the latest version of X and Linux kernel 2.6 or else X will segfault when you start. OK, run the Quake 3 installer and make sure you set the proper group and setuid permissions on quake3.bin. If you want sound, look here [link to another obscure web site], which is a short HOWTO on how to get sound in Quake 3. That's all there is to it!"

    LOL, nice try - (why am I even bothering to answer? oh well, must be bored I guess)

    I remember when I bought the quake 3 arena boxed set for linux... IIRC that was back in 2000 - The drill went like this:

    Insert the cd in my redhat 6.2 system, and when the file manager came up a second later with the CDROM, click on setup.sh, confirm the defaults with the gui installer that pops up, click OK and we're good to go. fraggin folks on the internet half an hour later.

    Things haven't really changed that much - like the other day when I inserted the ut2004 cd in my fedora core 1 system, clicked on setup and was playing ut2004 a few minutes later.