Do you want the best of the best Linux laptop this holiday season and price is no object? If that's you, then you want the Ubuntu Linux-powered Dell's XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop.

While in Edinburgh, I caught up with Linus Torvalds. He confided his thoughts about returning to Linux, the Code of Conduct, and some software, BPF, which is fundamentally changing how the Linux kernel and user space work together.

IBM may be buying Red Hat, but Fedora, its community Linux distribution, has been released on schedule.

Some see this as a giant leap forward for Microsoft and open source. A few, however, see Microsoft's open-source patent move as just more of the same old, same old.

Like living dangerously? Keep running Windows. Like to take a little risk? Give the new version of Ubuntu Linux 18.10 a try.

That's why the news last week that Microsoft had joined OIN and agreed to freely license all of its patents to every other member in the pool is so shocking. Microsoft's Erich Andersen, who now holds the role that Gutierrez held a decade ago, admitted quite frankly in his blog post about this decision that many will be surprised, but it represents a real "evolution" in the way Microsoft thinks about Linux. I would say that's an understatement.

After a few weeks off to reconsider his role in the Linux community, Linus Torvalds is back in the saddle.

This deal is the biggest Linux and open-source acquisition ever.

DIYers used a security flaw to bypass the $8.3 billion insulin delivery business with a cobbled-together artificial pancreas. By Naomi Kresge, Michelle Cortez.

Linux's creator is stepping back from his Linux kernel work.

Linux powers the internet, the Android in your pocket, and perhaps even some of your household appliances. A controversy over politics is now seeing some of its developers threatening to withdraw the license to all of their code, potentially destroying or making the whole Linux kernel unusable for a very long time. An open letter posted to the Linux Kernel Mailing List explains...

Linux-savvy legal experts from the past and present weigh in on this knotty, open-source licensing matter.

It depends on how you count them.

In this video, we look at the process for migrating projects from GitHub to GitLab.

The open-source developer community now confronts an acquisition of seismic impact. Today, Microsoft Corp. announced an agreement to acquire San Francisco-based open-source development community GitHub Inc. for $7.5 billion. Just as Oracle Corp.’s 2009 acquisition of the Sun Microsystems Inc.-developed Java sent shockwaves through the web developer ecosystem, Microsoft’s pending GitHub takeover is causing waves of concern to ripple across the global open-source developer community.

The Linux Foundation and Dice.com's 2018 Open Source Jobs Report shows the demand for open-source savvy employees is stronger than ever.

The oldest Linux business, SUSE, is changing hands.

It's now possible to upgrade directly from Linux Mint 18.3 to Linux Mint 19. But, it's not easy. Here's you do it.

Guido van Rossum, the "Benevolent Dictator For Life" of Python, has had enough and is walking away from leading the popular open-source language.

Is that service still running? What application is using that TCP port? These questions and more can be answered easily by sysadmins who know simple Linux commands. @Enterprisenxt

With a sufficiently advanced Chromebook, you can now install and run Linux natively on it.

You can now smoothly move up from Ubuntu Linux 16.04, or later versions, to Ubuntu 18.04. Here's how to do it.

The C language is very powerful, widely used—particularly in the Linux kernel—and very dangerous. One of the Linux engineers outlines how developers can cope with the programming language's security weaknesses. @Enterprisenxt

In a wide-ranging interview at Open Source Summit, Torvalds talked about programmers, Linux, and open-source development.

When you think of open-source software, you think about smartphones, servers, and the cloud. You probably don't think about movies, but you should.

No, protesting programmers are not removing code from Linux; there are no purges of politically incorrect Linux kernel developers. And Linus Torvalds is coming back.

Learn how to use Android without Google services.

By joining the Open Invention Network, Microsoft is offering its entire patent portfolio -- with the legacy exception of its Windows and desktop application code -- to all of the open-source patent consortium's members.

No matter how small your budget, there's a Linux or open source conference you can afford—and should attend. @Enterprisenxt

Google loves to woo app makers to Android by whispering the sweet sounds of 'openness' and 'open source' in their ears. While that's not entirely accurate, they heed the call for good reasons. Read this article by Seth Rosenblatt on CNET News.

There are many ways to measure whether an open source project is gaining meaningful traction. Here how’s OpenDaylight’s doing it.

The Linux Foundation's OpenDaylight Project conducted a third-party survey that found 95 percent of networking pros want open-source software-defined networking technologies.

Every team has someone who at the bottom of its bell curve: an individual who has a hard time keeping up with other team members. By my observation, how your team members treat that person is a significant indicator of …Read »

With the release of Docker 1.0, container technology took a big step forward in catching up with enterprise datacenter and cloud virtualization.

It’s not news that a lot of IT folk are introverted. But let’s acknowledge what a good thing that is.