The issue of software patents is widely discussed in Europe today. The standard economic rationale for patents is to protect potential innovators from imitation, which ultimately ...
The X Window System is the de facto standard graphical environment for Linux and Unix hosts, and is usable on nearly any class of computer one could find today. Its success is par...
Open source software such as the operating system Linux has in a few years created much attention as an alternative way to develop and distribute software. Open source is to let an...
This paper discusses the design, development, and use of a performance monitoring tool for Distributed Interactive Simulations (DIS). A typical DIS environment consists of hundred...
This paper evaluates the performance of three popular versions of the UNIX operating system on the x86 architecture: Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. We evaluate the systems using fre...