Look at almost any mission-critical computer system in the world—servers, workstations, embedded computers, and many more—and ...

The Linux hype this time was precipitated by Valve's Linux-based operating system, SteamOS, opening up for use on other ...

Linux and open source are also on track to become more secure in 2026, as the ecosystem simultaneously hardens the kernel, ...

Microsoft will soon include an entire custom-built Linux kernel (version 4.19) within Windows 10. The move may be surprising to many considering Microsoft's rather tepid response to the open-source OS ...

Members of the open source community are working on a new security-focused project for the Linux kernel. Named Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG), this is a loadable kernel module that will perform ...

Also in today’s open source roundup: DistroWatch reviews 4MLinux 21.0, and LinuxInsider reviews Ultimate Edition 5.4 Linux has made great strides over the years, advancing far beyond where it was when ...

Microsoft hearts Linux and all, but the company is reaching a new level. In a slew of security news this week, Microsoft unveiled an operating system product -- not an internal system, but an ...

Linux creator Linus Torvalds on Monday released version 3.9 of the Linux kernel, and particularly intriguing among numerous new features and improvements is support for laptops running Google’s Chrome ...

The new pearOS distro is a Romanian project that picks up the concepts behind the original Pear Linux from 2011 and updates ...