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 ...

"If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen" could be the unofficial motto of the Linux kernel community. Over the years, there has been one conflict after another in the heart of the the ...

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 ...

Researchers contend almost all Linux OS flaws could be mitigated to less-than-critical severity with an OS design based on a verified microkernel. In an exhaustive study of critical Linux ...

Managarm, Asterinas, Xous – where disaffected code whisperers could go Between Rust, new file systems, clashes between ...

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 ...

Arch Linux Figure it out yourself . Arch Linux takes an entirely different approach to being difficult. You don't have to sit ...

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 ...

The bug is remotely exploitable without authentication or user interaction. Millions of Linux systems could be vulnerable to a high-impact race condition flaw in the Linux kernel. Kernel versions ...

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 ...

An exit code other than 0 indicates that a script or a command has failed in some way. Learn more about exit codes and the types of errors they represent in this post. Whenever you run a command in a ...

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 ...