Here's how open source developed from a printer jam solution at MIT to a major development model in the tech industry today.

The inventor of hypertext talks about the birth of personal computing, the web, and how to think beyond the currently possible

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Learn which Linux and open source events our experts think are most worth attending in the coming year.

Leading open-source developer Torvalds does more than swear at poor security development. He spells out what he expects from security programmers.

When you handle trillions of dollars a year in transactions and manage the largest known vault of gold in the world, security and efficiency are top priorities. Open source reusable software components are key to the New York Fed's successful operation.

A small group of programmers wants to change how we code—before catastrophe strikes. By James Somers.

Want to build your own Linux distro but don't have mad programming skillz? SUSE Studio Enterprise is meant for you.

Microsoft’s CEO has stopped infighting, restored morale, and created more than $250 billion in market value. All it took was focusing on what matters most.

The most famous programmer ever is happy his work is meaningful and that he gets to do much of it in his bathrobe.

Women, Kleiman discovered, were the first modern computer coders, or programmers, in the U.S.

The following interview is part of a series, called Open Source Leaders, where we profile project leaders in the open source IT community, to learn more about how they developed their software as well as the challenges and benefits that come with running an open source project. In the sometimes-contentious Linux Kernel developer community, the …

When an experiment with existing open source technology does a “good enough” job

The most common mistakes open source projects make and how to avoid them.

IT Ops teams that create a new deployment model based on containers can point the way to new efficiencies.

Developers and system administrators spend all day at the keyboard. It behooves them to use the best one possible. And by BEST we mean YOU WANT THESE.

The incident began with a patch to the Linux kernel intended to limit the actions of binaries run with another user’s privileges, especially root. Different tactics and timings were brainstormed, as often happens on the Linux Kernel Mailing List. Then, in the middle of the discussion, Linux creator Linus Torvalds made a comment apparently about how …

If you want to do serious Linux programming, why not spend the money to get the best available workstation?

It is a Unix-style shell (based on bash) allowing the specification of commands with multiple pipelines in parallel.

This story begins, as they so often do, when I noticed that my machine was behaving poorly. My Windows 10 work machine has 24 cores (48 hyper-threads) and they were 50% idle. It has 64 GB of RAM an…