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 ...
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Linux developers had a code before, but the earlier "Code of Conflict," failed to make the kernel community a more civil group. As Greg Kroah-Hartman, a leading Linux kernel developer wrote, the "Code ...
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 ...
On Sunday, Linus Torvalds – the chief programmer of the Linux kernel – sent out a letter in which he apologized for his hostile behavior towards others in the community that maintains the project. He ...
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. No, it hasn't lost its mind. During her years ...
There's no shortage of text editors on Linux, but Helix Editor may just be the best one out there. Here's why.
When Linux 6.13 was released at the beginning of the week on January 20, the sources of the kernel called Linux consisted of exactly 39,819,522 lines of – code-comments, blank lines, documentation, ...
Fans of free and open source software (FOSS) may recall a report from Coverity last year that found open source code typically has fewer defects per thousand lines of code than proprietary software ...
Ubuntu's much-maligned format may be finally reaching critical mass Ubuntu Summit More than one Linux-adjacent vendor ...
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 ...