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At the Open Source Summit North America, one of the world's leading Linux kernel developers took issue with Intel's initial disclosure of the Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities.

For the last 50 years, mainframe have literally been the big iron systems that have helped to power critical elements of IT infrastructure. Yet despite the core role that mainframes have held, the primary interface to the mainframe throughout its history has been the 'green screen' command line. At the Open Source Summit, the Linux Foundation's Open Mainframe project announced the new Zowe effort which for the first time brings a real graphical user interface to the mainframe.

At the Open Source Summit, Linus Torvalds the creator of Linux talks about the Linux development process, security challenges and why hardware performance declines are a good thing for software development.

At Open Source Summit, IBM outlines the constituents and process of open source.

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu Linux discusses a recent cryptojacking attack and efforts his company is taking to secure users and applications.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is expanding its roster, announcing that it has accepted the Open Metrics project as a Sandbox effort. New effort aims to help define a standard format for cloud native server application metrics.

ngTLDs continue to lose grown as dot com remains the overall champ.

Longest release cycle this year for the Linux kernel brings new features

Docker CE Stable is moving to a twice a year release cadence, staring with the Docker 18.09 release which is set to debut in September. Docker CE was first announced by Docker in March 2017 as part of a new nomenclature and product approach. Docker had been releasing the CE version of its Dockerproduct on a quarterly basis.

The open source Istio project is out with its 1.0 release, providing a new easier method for enabling microservices communication.

Google is brining commercial Kubernetes applications to its cloud marketplace, but it isn't using Helm charts.

Red Hat has been busy leading multiple open-source efforts for managing, creating and deploying containers, including CRI-O, Buildah, Skopeo and Podman.

Open-source technologies have been used to transform and innovate across multiple industries and now the Linux Foundation is bringing that power to the energy industry, in an effort that could have wide ranging benefits across multiple sectors.

PVH brings together the best of paravirtualization (PV) with Hardware Virtual Machine (HVM) to enable a new era of server virtualization capabilities.

Back in 1999, Eric Raymond coined the term "Linus' Law," which stipulates that given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

Linus' Law, named in honor of Linux creator Linus Torvalds, has for nearly two decades been used by some as a doctrine to explain why open source software should have better security. In recent years, open source projects and code have experienced multiple security issues, but does that mean Linus' Law isn't valid?

Millions of WordPress sites around the world were at risk from a pair of related file deletion vulnerabilities, that could have potentially enabled an attacker to delete arbitrary files.

Dirk Hohndel, VP and Chief Open-Source Officer at VMware discusses how the software firm manages and contributes open-source code.

The latest Kubernetes release was led by well-known Red Hat open-source leader Josh Berkus, with the 1.12 release set to be led by a VMware engineer.

SUSE is set to become an independent business once again, as growth investment firm EQT acquires the Linux vendor from Micro Focus.

New release of Mozilla's open-source web browser improves performance and adds new features that helps to improve user experience with browser tabs.