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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
When I was a wet-behind-the-ears Unix user and programmer, the go-to response to any tech question was RTFM, which stands for "Read the F… Fine Manual." Unfortunately, this hasn't changed for the ...
Keep asking; it ain't happening. Microsoft has reaffirmed that its full-featured Visual Studio IDE will remain exclusive to ...
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.
Recently, it has become all too common for malicious hackers to insert bad code into software. Some open-source code repositories, such as the popular JavaScript package manager, Node Package Manager ...
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 ...
Infrastructure used to maintain and distribute the Linux operating system kernel was infected for two years, starting in 2009, by sophisticated malware that managed to get a hold of one of the ...