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 ...

Understanding Microsoft's Linux code shocker In a move even the software maker notes is unusual, the company is contributing code for three drivers for inclusion in the open-source operating system.

SCO Group says copyrighted code has made its way into Linux, the popular open-source OS. If true, the open-source community could find its hard-won gains threatened.

The Linux development community now has an organized way to deal with the eternal problem of developer conflict.

Serious security bugs in key parts of the latest Linux code have been fixed, but some small glitches have been introduced, according to a recent scan. In December, Coverity looked at version 2.6.9 ...

Bcachefs will probably remain in the kernel after the spat, but will not be developed further – This enables trouble-free ...

Most recently, Coverity scanned 7.6 million lines of code in Linux 3.8 and found a defect density of just .59.

Vyatta's Stephen Hemminger claims that Hyper-V Linux drivers had to be released for compliance with the open-source license Code that Microsoft released Monday for the Linux kernel under the GPLv2 ...

PostgreSQL implementation of document-oriented NoSQL datastore adopted under permissive MIT license The Linux Foundation on ...

Intel layoffs have left multiple Linux drivers without maintainers, raising concerns about future compatibility and performance.