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 ...

The Linux development community now has an organized way to deal with the eternal problem of developer conflict.

I wasn't a developer when I first started using Linux many moons ago. I dabbled in Python and wrote plenty of Bash scripts, ...

Most recently, Coverity scanned 7.6 million lines of code in Linux 3.8 and found a defect density of just .59.

Vyatta's Stephen Hemminger claims that Hyper-V Linux drivers had to be released for compliance with the open-source license Code that Microsoft released Monday for the Linux kernel under the GPLv2 ...

PostgreSQL implementation of document-oriented NoSQL datastore adopted under permissive MIT license The Linux Foundation on ...

Knowing how to work with and display exit codes on the Linux command line or in scripts can help make errors more obvious.

The bug is remotely exploitable without authentication or user interaction. Millions of Linux systems could be vulnerable to a high-impact race condition flaw in the Linux kernel. Kernel versions ...

Researchers contend almost all Linux OS flaws could be mitigated to less-than-critical severity with an OS design based on a verified microkernel.

Linux gets fix for code-execution flaw that was undetected since 2009 Vulnerability could be particularly serious for shared Web-hosting services.

Buried in the software that connects the Linux kernel to Microsoft's HyperV virtualization program was the following code string: 0xB16B00B5 In plain English, that stands for "BIG BOOBS".