Simply telling someone to RTFM is not an answer when the manual is outdated, unreadable, or nonexistent. We need to improve the quality of our documentation, and the way to do that is simple.

AlmaLinux wants to be taken seriously by enterprise hardware vendors.

At Open Source Summit China, Jim Zemlin highlights the Linux Foundation's most significant contributions to AI development.

A recent breach involving nearly 3 billion personal records included many Social Security numbers. Was yours one of them? Here's how to check and what to do to protect yourself.

Thanks to the AlmaLinux OS Foundation's ELevate project, disgruntled CentOS users can easily migrate to AlmaLinux and even Scientific Linux.

Older than the floppy drive and long favored by writers and typists alike, WordStar makes a comeback thanks to the efforts of this Hugo-winning sci-fi author. Here's how to try it.

No great changes are expected as Russ Cox turns over the leadership baton to Austin Clements.

OpenAI claims its new method can identify - with 99.9% accuracy - when someone uses ChatGPT to write an essay or research paper. Here's why I'm skeptical.

AI can't exist without open source, but the top AI vendors are unwilling to commit to open-sourcing their programs and data sets. To complicate matters further, defining open-source AI is a messy issue that has yet to be settled.

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration supports open-data models - but acknowledges the risks. Here's how it plans to navigate the technology's pros and cons.

OpenTofu 1.8 introduces early variables/locals evaluation, which was the most highly anticipated feature of the release, among other requested features.

UPDATED: It's not just you (or Crowdstrike) - Microsoft 365 really is going through an outage. Here's what we know.

And boy, did last Friday's Windows fiasco ever prove that yet again

In the aftermath of the CrowdStrike Windows security fiasco, security experts and developers alike are looking for a safer way to run low-level security programs. One possible solution is eBPF.

It never will be. But, it's a great development model. 

Linux Mint's latest release continues its tradition of excellence. It's easy to learn and use, faster than Windows, and runs on a thrift-store PC. What more can you ask for?

The United States remains reluctant to work with open source, but European countries are bolder.

Is Meta's 405 billion parameter model really open source? Depends on who you ask. Here's how to try out the new engine for yourself​.

OpenELA has automated its process so that new enterprise Linux sources are available just days after each release of new versions of RHEL.

And companies can't make them come into the office. Really.