commentary Recent disputes over the authorship of Linux are missing an extremely obvious point. Has nobody noticed? You sort of have to feel sorry for Richard Stallman. Poor old RMS, sitting in his ...

If I tell you to think of an open-source project, the first word that probably comes to mind is Linux. Then, if I ask you what open-source actually means, you'd probably say something like: "Open ...

Linux Foundation report shows for-profit companies provide 80-plus percent of kernel patches, with big role for mobile hardware developers Here’s an irony for you: the Linux kernel is now written, ...

There is nothing quite like the open source community to demonstrate the principles of freedom, democracy, and meritocracy – and the difficulties of bringing those principles to bear and keeping them ...

Most Linux kernel code isn’t developed by who you might think. Here’s a closer look at why this matters. If you think that Linux is still the “rebel code”—the antiestablishment, software-just-wants-to ...

It took years for the Internet to reach its first 100 computers. Today, 100 new ones join each second. And running deep within the silicon souls of most of these machines is the work of a technical ...

It’s all too common to hear Linux portrayed by detractors as an operating system suitable only for longtime hackers and “hobbyists,” as it was put in one recent example. The reality, however, is very ...

Arch and Fedora are two different Linux distributions. One of these is better suited for those with less experience. Both are outstanding Linux distributions that can be used for free. The first Linux ...