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The Linux Foundation's CIP project is an open source framework that will support the development of software needed to run critical services that create the backbone of any modern society, including electric power, oil and gas, water, health care, communications, and transportation.

It’s not Fedora if it ships on time. After a couple of delays, the Fedora community has announced the alpha release of Fedora 24, the next version of this free and open source Linux distribution. The release also makes Fedora the first distro to offer Gnome 3.20, which was released last week.

Earlier this month, the White House released a draft of an open source code policy for public review which would require agencies to share code with each other and with the public, but some experts are concerned about possible security implications.

John Donovan, Chief Strategy Officer and Group President, Technology and Operations at AT&T said in his keynote at Open Networking Summit that the company is "all in" in virtualizing its network. In 2015 the company virtualized over 5% of their network, and that was the hardest part as it was laying the foundation for the future. Now they are aiming at 30% in 2016.

Some members of the BSD community have announced an Ubuntu-based version of BSD called UbuntuBSD.

An application that allows users to gain full control -- root access -- over their Android devices is taking advantage of a security flaw in the Linux kernel that has remained unpatched in Android since its discovery two years ago.

The latest Project Sputnik laptop is the XPS 13 Developer Edition, which shipped last week. With its sleek design, the XPS 13 brings a new, sexy look to otherwise dull Linux laptop designs.

Patents generate a lot of revenue for Microsoft and no matter how much they champion open source, that isn't going to change.

Millions of Android devices are at risk yet again after researchers found a new way to exploit an older vulnerability that was previously patched by Google.

The larger reward is intended for someone who finds a persistent compromise of a Chromebook in guest mode, according to Google's security blog on Monday.

The Obama administration is seeking public comments on its open source policy.

Google has joined Facebook's Open Compute Project and proposed a new design for server racks that could help cloud data centers cut their energy bills.

Google has published an interactive questionnaire that companies can use to assess the security practices of their suppliers or to review and improve their own security programs. The app contains questions for assessing Web application security, infrastructure security, data center security and privacy.

The the super-fast Thunderbolt 3 connector technology will be featured in a new model of Dell's upcoming XPS 13 Developer Edition, which will have Ubuntu Linux. Thunderbolt 3 will be available via a USB Type-C port.

To have some level of consistency in my cross-platform workflow I choose applications that I can run on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Here are some more of the best open source and free apps I've found for my heterogeneous environment.

The Linux world is extremely dynamic; a lot can happen within a year so it’s interesting to see where these desktop environments stand today and where they'll be by year's end.

"As patches are being delivered by Linux vendors and community distributions, there’s one glaring issue at play: Who’s fixing containers?" wrote Red Hat's Gunnar Hellekson, director of product management, and Josh Bressers, security strategist, in a blog post Friday.

Xbot, new kind of Android malware, steals online banking credentials and can hold a device's files hostage in exchange for a ransom, delivering a particularly nasty one-two punch. It's not widespread yet but is targeting devices in Australia and Russia.

The issue isn’t whether open source is secure enough for PII - it’s whether the systems processing PII are in sufficiently secure.

A cyberespionage group of Russian origin known as Pawn Storm is infecting Linux systems with the Fysbis Trojan, which runs without root and has an extensible, modular architecture.