An open letter to the Linux community published this week by Silicon Graphics indicates that SGI has conducted a comprehensive comparison of the Linux kernel and the Unix System V source code owned by ...

Just a hobby, won't be big and professional like GNU...' Open Source Summit At OSS EU, LWN editor and long-time kernel ...

Analyst and consulting firm Gartner responded to the recent move by Linux creator Linus Torvalds and the Open Source Development Lab to formalize a process for tracking the source of Linux source code ...

Linux offers a wide range of free programming tools like GCC, GDB, Vim, and Emacs that are preinstalled and useful. You can code on Linux without fully switching the OS using tools like WSL, making it ...

At the Linux Plumbers Conference in Richmond, Virginia, Linux and Rust developer Miguel Ojeda gave the Linux kernel developers an update on the state of Rust in the Linux kernel. In brief, Rust Linux ...

The code for the AdvFS System is being released to comply with the terms of General Public License Version 2 for Linux compatibility, according to a release from HP. In addition, HP will release ...

Open-source code has become a malware vector. For example, by the closest of shaves, an open-source developer discovered that Jia Tan, a chief programmer and maintainer of the Linux xz data ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Last year, JC Herz and her team at cybersecurity firm Exiger found a vulnerability in a federal system’s open-source software that ...

The greatest threat to Linux may not come from known adversaries like Microsoft Corp. and The SCO Group Inc., but rather from its strongest supporters, open-source advocate Bruce Perens said at a ...

One day after being sued by Linux vendor Red Hat Inc. for “unfair and deceptive actions” relating to its claims about intellectual property violations in the Linux source code, The SCO Group Inc.