The hack is worrying because Kernel.org is the place where Linux distributors download the source code for the widely used operating system’s kernel. But Kernel.org’s note says that, even with ...

But this weekend Asus did something interesting. The company posted Linux source code for the Asus Eee PC 1008HA. In fact, there are 5 different downloads, ranging in size 299Mb to 488MB.

Lines from Unix's source code have been copied into the heart of Linux, sometimes exactly and sometimes in a modified form designed to disguise their origin, SCO Group chief executive officer Darl ...

The machine in question, Kernel.bkbits.net, hosted a version of the Linux source code that was used by only a handful of Linux developers, according to Larry McVoy, a maintainer of the machine.

The code was added to SCO’s version of Unix in 1995 or 1996, he maintained. “SCO took (the BSD) source code, lost the attribution, and now believes it’s theirs.” SCO disputed Perens’ claims.

However, a less protective license called the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) was created so that developers could link to these open source libraries in either way without being bound to ...

This site is your one-stop source for all things Rust on Linux. The original rust code branch, where development happened for two years, has been retired.

The announcement that Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code would only be available through Red Hat's customer portal might not seem like news. But the explosion that it caused reverberated through ...