While this may shock some, it's an open secret in the Linux community. As Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux stable kernel maintainer and a prominent member of the kernel security team, recently said: To be ...

Ubuntu Summit More than one Linux-adjacent vendor presented at the Ubuntu Summit, and a small but recurring theme is offering official Snap packages.… Aside from relatively closed platforms such as ...

SuSE Linux has said it plans to continue honoring its commitments to Linux group UnitedLinux, despite allegations by SCO Group--also a UnitedLinux founding member--that Linux contains unauthorized ...

On Thursday, four of Red Hat's chief competitors--Caldera, SuSE, TurboLinux and Conectiva--unveiled plans to create a global, uniform distribution of Linux, called UnitedLinux. The plan is to compete ...

The Linux Foundation has announced a new project to create a stable kernel tree with long-term support. The effort will help reduce the maintenance overhead for consumer electronics companies that ...

A security vulnerability in the Linux kernel that could have allowed a hacker to gain control of the operating system on user machines has been patched by the open-source community and Linux vendors.

While Torvalds says he doesn't focus very much on the strides Linux is making in the commercial world, he does realize that the success of the operating system with the penguin mascot relies heavily ...