Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Linux camp When one considers open source, it's fairly easy to imagine a world of designers, developers, and distributors getting ...

The hacker who created a widely reported cross-platform virus that could affect both Windows and Linux PCs may have inadvertently done some free bug testing for the Linux operating system. On ...

A proposal to help Linus Torvalds keep up with patches for Linux has sparked a controversy over whether the operating system has outgrown its creator. On Monday, Rob Landley, a computer programmer, ...

What a difference 233 lines of code can make. That’s the size of a small new patch to the Linux kernel’s scheduler that has been found to reduce the average latency of the desktop by about 60 times.

Linux users working on laptops and other portable devices may soon have cause to rejoice thanks to a new kernel patch that finally promises to fix power regression problems associated with recent ...

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Ok. Just wondering what others are doing. In our organization we have a very mature monthly patching process for our Windows desktops and servers. The Linux/Unix side is frankly a mess. Since its ...

This is actually a feature that was available in Linux in 2009 thanks to a program called Ksplice. This program compares the original and patched kernels and then uses a customized kernel module to ...

Microsoft’s recent lawsuit against TomTom, alleging infringement of filesystem patents, has left many questions unanswered about the legal implications of distributing open source implementations of ...

When one considers open source, it's fairly easy to imagine a world of designers, developers, and distributors getting along fabulously while sharing ideas and ideals like most people share memes on ...