Open Source News

The rumors of FreeBSD's death have been greatly exaggerated. In fact, while everyone's been fixated on Linux's corporate drama and controversial design dec...

Huawei Spams Open Source Projects to Push HarmonyOS

Huawei is certainly not winning any hearts, with the Chinese firm spamming dozens of open source projects on GitHub to push its HarmonyOS....

Canonical Donating $120,000 to Open Source Devs

Canonical, the company behind the most popular Linux distro in the world, announced plans to donate $120,000 to open source developers....

Debian Project Leader Wants to Tackle Dormant Packages

Debian Project Leader Andreas Tille has unveiled an initial plan to tackle dormant packages, a growing issue for the venerable Linux distro....

Switzerland Mandates Open Source Software For Government

Switzerland has taken a bold step, mandating that all government software be open source, and that government agencies disclose the source code it develops...

MS-DOS 4.0 Is Now Open Source Software

Microsoft has open-sourced MS-DOS 4.0 under the MIT license, making it nearly 45 years after it was first developed by Microsoft and IBM....

The State of Open Source Security in the Software Supply Chain

Arnaud Le Hors, a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM and esteemed Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) member delves into the intricate world of open source security, provid...

Google Brain Co-Founder: Companies Hyping Up AI Fears to Stop Competition

Andrew Ng, co-founder of Google Brain, says companies are fueling fears of AI posing an existential threat to humanity to weed out the competition....

Oracle Calls Out Red Hat and IBM Over RHEL Source Code

Oracle is weighing in on the Red Hat E...

Red Hat Continues Damage Control, Clarifies Term ‘Freeloader’

Red Hat continues its efforts to put out the dum...

GitHub Is Launching an Open Source Maintainer Community

GitHub has announced the launch of its open source Maintainer Community, a place for maintainers to connect with peers....

Why You Should Consider Using Software Composition Analysis (SCA) for Open-Source Software

The use of open-source software (OSS) has become commonplace in the modern software development landscape. A...

AWS Is Becoming a Better Open-Source Player

AWS is beginning to earn a...

Linux Distro Reviews: Intro

This series of articles will review some of the most popular Linux distributions (distros) with an eye to everyday desktop use....