Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distros for all kinds of users, from Linux newbies to seasoned campaigners. For ...

Linux programmer wins legal victory German court supports effort to enforce the GPL, which governs countless projects in the free and open-source software realms.

An open-source programmer stopped by the CeBit trade show in Hannover, Germany, this week to tell Motorola and 12 other companies he believes they're using Linux in violation of the license that ...

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Noam Cohen on Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, and his decision to step aside following complaints of abusive behavior toward programmers, and particularly women, who work on the system.

Tech Services & Software Linux programmer Reiser requests new murder trial Hans Reiser, who was convicted of killing his wife in a bizarre 2008 courtroom drama, is demanding a new trial.

I know programmers—being one myself—and programmers don't just want to be told that something works, we want to know why and how it works. Thus, before I introduce a checklist for the open-source ...

As anyone who has spent some time with Linux knows, our favorite operating system is a programmer's heaven. With dozens of free compilers and interpreters for practically every language in existence, ...