A proposal to help Linus Torvalds keep up with patches for Linux has sparked a controversy over whether the operating system has outgrown its creator. On Monday, Rob Landley, a computer programmer, ...

When one considers open source, it's fairly easy to imagine a world of designers, developers, and distributors getting along fabulously while sharing ideas and ideals like most people share memes on ...

The Linux server operating system, used globally to power the internet, along with cloud storage, back-end business operations, embedded systems, and high-performance supercomputers, has a tarnished ...

Intel chips have their issues and patching those issues causes performance degradation in some cases and now it seems that Intel Spectre patches that were released to patch the vulnerabilities cause ...

The Intel Meltdown security problem is the pain that just keeps hurting. Still, there is some good news. Ubuntu and Debian Linux have patched their distributions. The bad news? It's becoming clearer ...

A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in Squid, an open source proxy server. The flaw is a memory leak in fakeauth_auth NTLM that could ultimately cause the system to run out of memory. For more, ...

Ok. Just wondering what others are doing. In our organization we have a very mature monthly patching process for our Windows desktops and servers. The Linux/Unix side is frankly a mess. Since its ...

Apparently, Microsoft isn't the only vendor who can call a Patch Tuesday. In a series of announcements that might have made Microsoft envious, Linux vendor Red Hat today issued four patches designed ...

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Microsoft’s recent lawsuit against TomTom, alleging infringement of filesystem patents, has left many questions unanswered about the legal implications of distributing open source implementations of ...