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

In a major upheaval in the open-source software market, Wind River Systems acquires Berkeley Software Design's version of Unix. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Discover the state of Enterprise Linux for networking in 2026. Compare RHEL 10, SLES 16, and Ubuntu alongside NOS leaders like SONiC and Nvidia Cumulus.

Several groups argue that SCO Group's shipment of a Linux product undermines its attack on the OS's intellectual-property underpinnings, but SCO says the argument is baseless. Stephen Shankland worked ...

Lightweight Linux distributions get a bad rap for shipping with minimal reinstalled software. Besgnulinux, loaded with old-school charm, is the exception.

Open source enters 2026 as core enterprise infrastructure, with growing pressure around sustainability, governance, funding, ...

HP announced Monday it is letting its Tru64 Unix Advanced File System (AdvFS) source code run free in the Linux community. Access to this code will provide capabilities that increase uptime, enhance ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said that Ethereum is like the Linux operating system that powers a diverse ecosystem of ...

When Scott Thompson left Visa to take the CTO role at PayPal in 2005, the Web company’s data center surprised him. ‘Wait a minute,’ he recalls saying, ‘they run a payment system on Linux?’ “I was ...

Just as the Unix philosophy provided a blueprint for open source, open source practices and design principles provided a model for the cloud “The cloud was built for running open source,” Matt Wilson ...