Microsoft has already said there's nothing technically stopping it from bringing its Chromium-based Edge browser to one-time Windows foe Linux. But the company now appears to be actually doing it and ...

Developers are gearing up for a fiercely competitive HackFest at a heavyweight Linux conference in Adelaide, Australia this month. The HackFest is a feature of the Linux.conf.au conference, which ...

Red Hat Introduces Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Business Developers, Aligning Application Development with Production ConsistencyNew offering provides self-serve, no-cost access to Red Hat Enterprise ...

What’s a poor, lonely Linux developer to do? Where are all the good support sites? How am I going to fix that troublesome bug? These are questions that even novice code writers no longer have to ask.

Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ReadWrite, and other tech media. Asay has also held a variety of executive roles with leading mobile and big data software ...

MontaVista is sponsoring a new online open source community, designed to bring together embedded Linux developers. It probably won’t be “Facebook for Linux” but a Web site launching Tuesday is ...

Also in today’s open source roundup: Is Red Hat a good desktop distro? And why you should run Windows as a VM in Linux Linux distributions geared toward casual desktop users are important, but ...

New research shows that confidence in Linux as a secure platform is up. A recent survey conducted by the research firm Evans Data shows that Linux’s reputation as stable and secure operating system is ...

Google is adding the ability to securely run Linux applications inside a virtual machine within Chrome OS. The Linux support is designed for developers so they can use Chromebooks in addition to—or ...