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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Kapitano, a Linux virus scanning app using ClamAV has been discontinued by its developer and the code made available under ...

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

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 ...

There are many open source programs (aka code that’s accessible to the public) out there for both Linux and Windows. For programs and tools where that’s not the case, WSL (Windows Subsystem ...