Open Source Summit At OSS EU, LWN editor and long-time kernel developer Jonathan Corbet shared a long-term perspective on how and why Linux has thrived for a third of a century.

The XZ attack is a backdoor that reminds us our biggest open-source security threats are from decades of unlearned lessons.

Security researchers at ARMO have uncovered a significant vulnerability in Linux runtime security tools that stems from the ...

An open source software supply-chain vulnerability is an exploitable weakness in trusted software caused by a third-party, ...

Rust has gradually become an indispensable part of the open-source world, not only being adopted by an increasing number of ...

One of Android’s greatest strengths, and source of occasional frustrations, is its wide variety of software variations. Samsung’s One UI and even Google’s Pixel UI offer their own spin on the core ...

FreeBSD might be the most well-known BSD variant. The project dates back to the early '90s, after an earlier effort to bring ...

Linux Mint just announced the beta release for LMDE 7, codenamed "Gigi." The beta release is available now, and you can ...

At RustConf 2025 in Seattle, Microsoft, Amazon, and the broader developer community marked key milestones for Rust — an ...

In conversations about operating system security, "compliance" tends to dominate. But for those of us responsible for keeping infrastructure In OS security, compliance is the cost of entry—not the ...

Linux 6.17-rc7 is out, and it's looking good. The latest release candidate is full of small, random changes across various ...

Overseas tech giants are making moves, with OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank advancing the "Stargate" project, which plans to ...