The widely used open-source library has been patched to defend against a heap buffer overflow flaw that’s been in the code since its inception.

Linux Mint will be slowing down how often it releases its namesake distro. We'll still see the next distro not long after Ubuntu 26.04 appears.

This applies to Linux vendors too, even if they do not sell FOSS groupware. Large groupware deployments don't come for free, even if they are FOSS. Red Hat has 19,000 employees, SUSE's CEO told ...

Linus Torvalds releases Linux Kernel 6.19. Discover the 300% TCP boost, PCIe Link Encryption, Live Update Orchestrator for VMs, and more.

Learn the ABCs of BSD.

FreeBSD is one of the most stable OSes on the planet. FreeBSD is also more challenging than Linux. You can download and install FreeBSD for free. I'm not gonna lie: I don't give FreeBSD (or any of the ...

Google AdSense seems to be rolling out new metrics for the AdSense reports in the console. These include Browser breakdown, ...

No installs required: history search, redirection, job control, completions, and other built-in terminal features that ...

Linus Torvalds started the Linux project in 1991, developing a Unix-like kernel inspired by Andrew S. Tanenbaum's Minix. Decades later, Linux has become the cornerstone of ...

When we think of important historical discoveries, many of us probably imagine big archaeological finds, such as the LiDAR-assisted discovery of two mountain cities in eastern Uzbekistan in 2024. But ...

Linux (come on, you knew it’d be Linux) takes a different approach: no locks, no guardrails, no limits. That’s what makes Linux a real operating system, something its competitors, dwarfing it in ...