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 owned by ...

Linux offers a wide range of free programming tools like GCC, GDB, Vim, and Emacs that are preinstalled and useful. You can code on Linux without fully switching the OS using tools like WSL, making it ...

The code for the AdvFS System is being released to comply with the terms of General Public License Version 2 for Linux compatibility, according to a release from HP. In addition, HP will release ...

Open Source Summit At OSS EU, LWN editor and long-time kernel developer Jonathan Corbet shared a long-term perspective on how and why Linux has thrived for a third of a century.

When I was a wet-behind-the-ears Unix user and programmer, the go-to response to any tech question was RTFM, which stands for "Read the F… Fine Manual." Unfortunately, this hasn't changed for the ...

Keep asking; it ain't happening. Microsoft has reaffirmed that its full-featured Visual Studio IDE will remain exclusive to ...

But if you want to browse the internet, stream, or use most productivity software or office suites, you’ll find a capable ...

I've outlined four things that using Linux has taught me about free and open-source software. People often view open-source ...

Recently, it has become all too common for malicious hackers to insert bad code into software. Some open-source code repositories, such as the popular JavaScript package manager, Node Package Manager ...