FreeBSD might be the most well-known BSD variant. The project dates back to the early '90s, after an earlier effort to bring ...

Linux-savvy legal experts from the past and present weigh in on this knotty, open-source licensing matter.

In the aftermath of Linus Torvalds apologizing for how he's been running the Linux kernel community, Linux has adopted a new code of conduct. But some now claim this means Linux is being taken ...

Floppy disks linger in Linux through code cleanups, surviving in prisons, retro circles, and industry despite technological ...

Linux community is adotping a code of conduct following Linus Torvalds' letter in which he apologised for being hostile towards others in the community ...

SCO Group says copyrighted code has made its way into Linux, the popular open-source OS. If true, the open-source community could find its hard-won gains threatened.

If you glanced at the title and thought, “I don’t care — I don’t write C code,” then hang on a minute. While it is true that C has a preprocessor and you can notorious… ...

Understanding Microsoft's Linux code shocker In a move even the software maker notes is unusual, the company is contributing code for three drivers for inclusion in the open-source operating system.

Most recently, Coverity scanned 7.6 million lines of code in Linux 3.8 and found a defect density of just .59.

Linux gets fix for code-execution flaw that was undetected since 2009 Vulnerability could be particularly serious for shared Web-hosting services.