A decades-long dispute over the ownership of Linux looks like it is over. Earlier this month the United States Court of ...

A US appeals court has affirmed the dismissal of the last claim over who owns Linux, according to The Register. The fight began in 1998.

Serious security bugs in key parts of the latest Linux code have been fixed, but some small glitches have been introduced, according to a recent scan. In December, Coverity looked at version 2.6.9 of ...

Another of SCO’s legal successors, Xinuos, filed a new claim that IBM should be on the hook because Big Blue knew it did not ...

An open letter to the Linux community published this week by Silicon Graphics indicates that SGI has conducted a comprehensive comparison of the Linux kernel and the Unix System V source code owned by ...

A series of new patches is improving support for 3dfx Voodoo3 cards in Linux. Daniel Palmer, the developer behind the code ...

Under certain conditions, attackers can chain a set of vulnerabilities in multiple components of the CUPS open-source printing system to execute arbitrary code remotely on vulnerable machines. Tracked ...

The chipmaker announces new software to help programmers speed up Linux programs running on Intel Xeon and Pentium 4 processors. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

It's been 35 years since Finnish graduate student Linus Torvalds drafted a brief note saying he was starting a hobby ...