The Linux Foundation published a guide for new Linux coders on how to navigate through the processes involved, which I wrote an article about. The man who wrote the guide is Linux developer and ...

What's great for programming pros is good enough for beginners.

Linux underpins most modern systems in some way, so learning how to make the most of it offers IT professionals a way to advance their careers and get more from their tools. The Linux & Docker Coding ...

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 of ...

Microsoft dropped a mini-bombshell on Monday, announcing that it is contributing thousands of lines of code for inclusion in Linux. But lest anyone think Microsoft suffered a massive head trauma over ...

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 ...

COW snapshots are an important feature in modern OSes – the FreeBSD folks are justly proud of their built-in native support for the ZFS filesystem from Solaris. OpenZFS works fine with Linux, but it ...

The SCO Group Inc. is taking its case against the Linux operating system and IBM on the road. Last week, the company began showing to U.S. analysts code that, it claims, proves that the source code to ...

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. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...