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 ...

The Linux kernel development effort is a very personal process compared to "traditional" ways of developing software. Your code and ideas behind it will be carefully reviewed, often resulting in ...

Understanding Microsoft's Linux code shocker In a move even the software maker notes is unusual, the company is contributing code for three drivers for inclusion in the open-source operating system.

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 ...

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

An analysis of the 5.7 million lines of Linux source code shows that it contains fewer bugs per thousand lines of code than commercial counterparts. By Michelle Delio.

SCO Group says copyrighted code has made its way into Linux, the popular open-source OS. If true, the open-source community could find its hard-won gains threatened.

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

He also congratulated Microsoft for releasing the code, which consists of four drivers that are part of a technology called Linux Device Driver for Virtualization.

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