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, ...

Users and developers have hailed Linux as the operating system that "just works," celebrating it for decades as a symbol of open source strength, speed, ...

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 ...

The Intel Meltdown security problem is the pain that just keeps hurting. Still, there is some good news. Ubuntu and Debian Linux have patched their distributions. The bad news? It's becoming clearer ...

A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in Squid, an open source proxy server. The flaw is a memory leak in fakeauth_auth NTLM that could ultimately cause the system to run out of memory. For more, ...

Apparently, Microsoft isn't the only vendor who can call a Patch Tuesday. In a series of announcements that might have made Microsoft envious, Linux vendor Red Hat today issued four patches designed ...