Linux creator Linus Torvalds has unexpectedly come to Microsoft’s defense regarding the jokes about the Windows operating ...

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Microsoft has hired one of the key figures behind a popular distribution of Linux in order to educate its in-house developers about open source. Daniel Robbins, the founder and former chief architect ...

The seventh release candidate of Linux kernel 6.17 has just landed. The good news is that this will be the final release candidate before the official 6.17 release next week, as long as no unexpected ...

When SuSE Linux founder Hubert Mantel announced his resignation from Novell last week, he became the third former SuSE executive to leave in the past six months. There was much speculation as to why ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CloudLinux, a leading innovator in ensuring the security, stability and availability of Linux servers and devices, today announced that CEO Igor Seletskiy will ...

Torvalds declared on his personal blog that he "broke down and bought a Nexus One last week," and that the new device had made him a "happy camper." In the relatively brief post, he describes his ...

BOSTON, June 18 (Reuters) - The founder of Ubuntu Linux, a widely used version of the open-source operating system for personal computers, said he is not interested in a business partnership with ...

Sun Microsystems has hired Ian Murdock, who founded the Debian version of Linux and who has held various posts involving the open-source operating system. At Sun, Murdock now holds the title of chief ...