The United States patent system needs a lobotomy. Or just stiff medicine.

There’s never a dull moment in Open Source.

Kernel helper interfaces make life easier for developers. Learn about notifier chains, completion functions and error handling aids.

A monkey, a penguin, and a wiki walk into a bar…

Dynamic Parallel Execution: Loosing control at the high end.

With dozens of software projects involving hundreds of developers, keeping data flowing smoothly is an involved process for the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). With tens of machines distributed worldwide, gigabytes of daily downloads, and fifty hits per second on the Apache home page, system maintenance requires the varied skills of a small legion of volunteers. In the fourth in an ongoing, exclusive series, ASF co-founder Ken Coar pulls back the curtain to reveal how it all works.