As Linux fans know, there are two kinds of hackers: the good guys who develop free software, such as the Linux kernel, and the bad guys who break into computers.The bad guys paid the good guys an ...

Open-source systems are adopting live patching and isolation technologies to support always-on security and meet enterprise ...

Although Linux has no Unix source code, it's popular among university CS departments because it's free of charge, runs on a wide variety of hardware, and professors are already familiar with Linux.

The situation of 'source code containing a lot of violent words' has been a problem in the Linux development community, and in 2018 a patch that replaced violent words with 'hug' became a hot topic.

Longtime programmer Jonathan Corbet tells the story of Linux and reveals what's made it successful over its three decades.

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 ...

In addition to the release of Solaris source code, which must be compiled into machine-readable binary code before it can be used, Sun also plans to release a binary version of Solaris, free of ...

HJBC/Getty Images It took Microsoft long enough, but the company has finally open-sourced its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) code. The announcement was made at the Build 2025 developer ...

Last week, Greg Kroah-Hartman, the current maintainer of the stable branch of the open source Linux kernel, issued a message on the Linux code maintainers mail list announcing that it was removing ...