It's just that easy, sometimes.

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 ...

Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of Linux is setting off alarm bells as defenders scramble to ward off severe ...

The SCO Group Inc. is taking its case against the Linux operating system and IBM on the road. Last week, the company began showing to U.S. analysts code that, it claims, proves that the source code to ...

The Linux kernel development team has officially released Linux Kernel 7.1, marking the first major update in the 7.x series.

A new Bluetooth security vulnerability has appeared, and this time Linux is under the gun. Andy Nguyen, an information security researcher, discovered the vulnerabilities. They are collectively known ...

The Linux kernel is moving toward a better way of identifying developers and their code. This new approach can be used by other open-source projects. It's not being rolled out yet, but I expect it to ...

When you've used Linux for over 20 years, you don't need much hand-holding.

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 new security feature is sandboxing on Linux when Homebrew compiles software. This was already implemented on macOS (and has ...