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.

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.

Users will be able to get involved by submitting bug reports too. The source code of Chrome's high-performance V8 JavaScript engine is also open and available for download.

The Unix source code has been licensed to universities for the past 30 years, and most good college computer science departments made use of a copy until the publicly available Linux came along.

It compared source code from the Unix System V release 4.1 software that SGI has licensed from SCO with a version of the Linux kernel released this June, SGI said.

On May 12, The SCO Group sent to commercial Linux customers announcing "the suspension of our own Linux-related activities". On May 14, SCO they are ceasing to sell Linux. However, SCO is still, as of ...

The rebranded encryptor, named "Mallox Linux 1.0," uses Kryptina's core source code, the same AES-256-CBC encryption mechanism and decryption routines, and also the same command-line builder and ...

Also: Heavy metal Linux 6.6 has arrived As Thomas Di Giacomo, SUSE's chief technology and product officer, said in a statement, "We're pleased to deliver on our promise of making source code ...

Responding to a legal challenge over the origin of some of the Linux programming code, Linus Torvalds, the operating system's creator, proposes changes to the kernel-development process that he ...

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.